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Stof

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« on: November 13, 2006, 03:06:17 pm »
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8 ) Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
18 ) Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

Timbo

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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2006, 03:23:04 pm »
It'll never be eliminated completely. It's really an arms race against the captcha used and the spam bots being taught how to interpret it. If it gets significantly worse in the next week or so i'll look into changing it again. I guess the ideal situation would be to develop captcha that is specific to the Trem forums. As a general statement the less widely deployed a captcha is the less likely it is to be circumvented.
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Paradox

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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2006, 11:00:05 pm »
We could make the captcha a picture of a dretch or something from tremulous, and force users to name what appears in the picture.

Currently, few, if no, spambots could do that, espcecially if the pictures were brand new ones, taken from fresh screenshots, not the ones in the manual.
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2006, 01:32:35 am »
Quote from: "Paradox"
We could make the captcha a picture of a dretch or something from tremulous, and force users to name what appears in the picture.

Currently, few, if no, spambots could do that, espcecially if the pictures were brand new ones, taken from fresh screenshots, not the ones in the manual.


People would get it wrong and spell "drentch"

Why not just picture a "Turret"

Campers are more familiar with that anyway. :P
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2006, 01:47:30 am »
If they cannot spell it correctly, they shouldn't be here.
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2006, 05:53:16 am »
-_-
It is now time for kitten auth:
http://www.kittenauth.com/

Good thing we have these mod fellows to keep us safe!
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Stof

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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2006, 11:34:51 am »
Well, I haven't seen any more spam yet. Unless some other moderator was faster than me and delete all in sight, I guess it must have been a lucky answer from their capcha solver :D
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urphy's rules of combat
8 ) Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
18 ) Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

Lava Croft

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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2006, 12:23:34 am »
Quote from: "Odin"
If they cannot spell it correctly, they shouldn't be here.

That means 90% of the Tremulous community should not be here, since their spelling is worse than that of a AOL-infested internetjunkie.
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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2006, 12:38:17 am »
Quote from: "Lava Croft"
Quote from: "Odin"
If they cannot spell it correctly, they shouldn't be here.

That means 90% of the Tremulous community should not be here, since their spelling is worse than that of a AOL-infested internetjunkie.

HAHaaa...

Sorry....

Timbo has a great idea you should have a picture of a drentch and a tick box with four answers,

What is this creature?
A : dog
B : cat
C : dretch
D : fish
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2006, 09:37:02 am »
Quote from: "DIGI_Byte"
Quote from: "Lava Croft"
Quote from: "Odin"
If they cannot spell it correctly, they shouldn't be here.

That means 90% of the Tremulous community should not be here, since their spelling is worse than that of a AOL-infested internetjunkie.

HAHaaa...

Sorry....

Timbo has a great idea you should have a picture of a drentch and a tick box with four answers,

What is this creature?
A : dog
B : cat
C : dretch
D : fish

No, this is a stupid idea. Why? Because the bot will only have to answer at random and he'll have 1 chance in 4 to get the correct answer ;) And it is a bot so he can sign up a thousands of times per second if the server can handle it.
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urphy's rules of combat
8 ) Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.
18 ) Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2006, 09:40:31 am »
Quote from: "Lava Croft"
Quote from: "Odin"
If they cannot spell it correctly, they shouldn't be here.

That means 90% of the Tremulous community should not be here, since their spelling is worse than that of a AOL-infested internetjunkie.

Your point?
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2006, 06:19:46 pm »
Quote from: "Mwa"
Quote from: "Lava Croft"
Quote from: "Odin"
If they cannot spell it correctly, they shouldn't be here.

That means 90% of the Tremulous community should not be here, since their spelling is worse than that of a AOL-infested internetjunkie.

Your point?

90% can't spell.
But only 5% have a point.
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2006, 11:52:04 pm »
Quote from: "DIGI_Byte"
Quote from: "Lava Croft"

That means 90% of the Tremulous community should not be here, since their spelling is worse than that of a AOL-infested internetjunkie.


Timbo has a great idea you should have a picture of a drentch
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