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When I managed a purely Danish forum, i simply added a textbox and asked the user to write ‘æ’ in it. Never saw any spam after that.
by qixv 5y ago
When I managed a purely Danish forum, i simply added a textbox and asked the user to write ‘æ’ in it. Never saw any spam after that.
- dude187 5y agoI feel like you could have just asked them to type 'a'. If the threat was automated bots, all generic ones are defeated by a simple "do X" request. Especially if the request was in text, where a lazy human attacker could just copy paste.
- dahjkol 5y agoOne of our public facing systems I put up a silly "what is the capital of x country?" While we waited on some other stuff. I think it's still in production. And to my knowledge no bot has gotten past it or even bothered.
- Geee 5y agoThat filters out all Americans as well.
- geoduck14 5y agoAmerican here. I've never heard of country X! /s
- jrnichols 5y agowe ask similar questions in my EMS (Paramedic) job to patients to determine if they're alert & oriented. Most providers ask name, year, location, president or something similar and many patients are used to being asked routine questions. I like to see if they can answer stuff like "Name a large city in Florida." Human captcha. :)
- dahjkol 5y agoSpringfield! Never can be wrong with that name.
- Gravityloss 5y agoAnd to keep out all the Swedes and Germans...
- ASalazarMX 5y agoThey couldn't copy-paste 'æ'?
- immibis 5y agoAgain, it blocks people who are not going to tweak their bot specifically for YOUR forum.