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Congrats, a great place to discuss interesting topics. Wonder how HN moderators deal with spam? I have a phpBB3 (was phpBB2) forum for 17 years, still running,
by erwincoumans 5y ago
Congrats, a great place to discuss interesting topics.
Wonder how HN moderators deal with spam? I have a phpBB3 (was phpBB2) forum for 17 years, still running, and had to be inventive with spam: for the last 5 years you have to solve a dot product and answer a logic question during registration. It may exclude some genuine visitors unfortunately. Also migrated the server to different VPS companies, it takes energy to keep a forum running, a popular site such as HN in particular.
So thank you HN admins!
- smrtinsert 5y agoOne of the first to use bayesian spam filtering techniques if I remember correctly. Probably only gotten better since then. Still using spacer gifs though hah.