Hi Steven, > I just followed the directions and asked > dumb questions; What comes after Wednesday? What are trees made of? etc...
Don't the directions say "ask site-specific questions"? Where did you read about dumb questions? Asking too common-sense questions may keep out some robots, but i think since quite a while spammers use hybrid setups. Like spamming with robots, but assisting them with humans (to get those questions answered). So rather ask questions that your visitors are able to answer, but not someone who has nothing to do with your site / topic. > Over time, Textchas turned out to be a failure. The total number of > people who create accounts and succeed at adding a page to sell their > candles or dick cream or real estate scams was averaging out to over 25+ > per day, with around double that in new accounts and failed page > creation. Very annoying. Well, that just means that your questions maybe have been too easy / too common-sense and you need to get some better ones. If you recognize that some question is answered by spammers, just remove it and add a more difficult one. You can remove ALL common-sense questions. Also, do not keep a single too-easy question, otherwise the spammers will just retry and retry until they get the easy one. > Then I came up with a simple solution that works *for me*. Your > situation make not make this helpful *to you*: > > I changed the Textcha questions to be of *local* relevance. I can do > this because the wiki I have is intended for people who are *local*. Yeah, much better. Often spammers (of people willingly or unwillingly helping them) have no clue about what they are spamming. Or they just go away if the question is not answered in 2 seconds. Cheers, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
