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But yet, if they are using Google over https, searched the issue there and found your forum... the lack of referrer header on your http site and no other activi
by buro9 14y ago
But yet, if they are using Google over https, searched the issue there and found your forum... the lack of referrer header on your http site and no other activity for the user would have you falsely identify the user as a spammer.
The cost of a false positive is great... you may lose a customer.
By adding an email field to your form you'd get to use the blacklist and avoid false positives and the risk of offending an already aggravated customer.
- latitude 14y agoAh, no. Of course, he's not identified as a spammer. Instead, he is identified as someone who needs to go through additional checks when posting. This can be combined with the stopforumspam check, and that would yield 3 categories of visitors - white, gray and blacklisted. It's just that in my own setups I haven't come across for the need to blacklist people. PS. If they searched the issue, they were presumably having it with my software, so it's quite likely they were on the site before and I can recognize them. That's not to say that direct hits into an appropriate threads from https://google https://google aren't possible. But they aren't that common either.