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Seems pretty effective indeed. If i look at the caught spam on my blog all of them have hyperlinks in either the 'website' field or the comment text itself. Pi
by huskyr 14y ago
Seems pretty effective indeed. If i look at the caught spam on my blog all of them have hyperlinks in either the 'website' field or the comment text itself.
Pity it also targets normal users that simply want to post a hyperlink :(
- Simucal 14y agoMaybe the barrier to posting a comment should be low if you don't have a hyperlink but if you include one then you have to jump through some hoops (captcha's, etc).
- eli 14y agoI implemented that with some success. Much more successful was to simply require Javascript.
- Simucal 14y agoInteresting. Why do the bots run with JS turned off?
- eli 14y agoTo be clear, we're talking about an automated process that is looking for forms to fill out. It's far easier and faster to simply scrape the HTML of a page and look for the <form> and <input> tags to figure out what to submit than to actually fire up something that resembles a real browser.
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago>have hyperlinks in either the 'website' field // Isn't the website field for a hyperlink? (or at least a domain that is converted to a hyperlink?). If I leave a comment but refer back to a related page on my blog is that automatically "spam" in your opinion.