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Re: Spam

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I know this sounds silly but a friend of mine has a forum site and added a spam section for people to post spam. It almost eliminated all spam in other parts of the site.
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Re: Spam

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osiris wrote:It looks as though the accounts themselves could be human generated though, but the posts are by a bot. I'm not 100% on that but Admin's silly number question thing is always correct on them.
The problem with the silly number question thing is that it isn't an actual question, it's just a passcode, which is "3". It's much easier for a bot to crack a short constant like "3" than a longer variable like "XtH67e".
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