On 02/20/2014 12:14 PM, Niles Johnson wrote: > > There are a number of ideas on the askbot support site > > http://askbot.org/en/question/7893/suggestions-for-antispam-measures/ > > but I don't know which of them are available in our version of askbot > (roughly 1 year old). >
I have a bit of experience with this. The first, easy thing I'd do that has no impact on real users is add a dummy field to the submission form. Call it "phone" or something common, and hide it with CSS so that no human can see it. I also hide a paragraph that says "humans, leave this blank" for people with screen readers. When the form is submitted, you can reject and potentially ban any user that tries to put something in that field. Next, force the user user to preview his post. This is silly, but most spam bots can only post to one page and won't bother to scrape the second page to find the real submit button. Depending on how bad things are, you can also ping the admins when someone (with low karma?) makes a new post. Combine this with a "delete and ban the poster" button and you can get rid of the few bad apples pretty quickly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
