Hello, Am Dienstag, 25. Juni 2013 schrieb Jim Henderson:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:38:22 -0500, Rajko wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:39:59 +0000 (UTC)
Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:43:50 -0500, Rajko wrote:
Whether we like it or not spam is part of online business and even complicated form did not prevent it. In other words it is useless as a deterrent.
You have no data that I am aware of (as I'm not sure how you'd gather it) to demonstrate that the level of spam isn't lower than it would be with a simpler process.
Of course, if you do, feel free to share it. I'd be interested in how you gathered it.
I have some experience from a wiki I'm running, which has a rather long signup form. Most spammers (to be exact: their bots) fill _every_ field. If a fieldname is unknown to them, they usually fill the field with stuff that would be a good password ;-) This also means that one of my spam defenses is having a field that is hidden by CSS - if it is filled, it's a sure sign for a spammer... Spammers who register manually are very rare - but those are impossible to detect in advance.
I feel silly to ask for fix, as it is not fixed for a very long time. It seems that no one finds such stuff pressing.
I'd say the problem is that nobody has time to change it :-(
Replacing few links seems to be very complicated process.
;-)
I don't think it's really that big of a deal. I'm for the shorter form, as I said, *but* its easy to fill out a long form with fake information, too.
Indeed. It would be interesting to know how many people are working for the "." company ;-) (which is accepted as valid input AFAIK)
Well, with more users it would be easier and faster to remove it and keep forums clean. Spammers don't like sites that promptly remove web spam; it is not worth effort to post anything if it will live so short that search engines will not pick it up.
It's even worth less if registration takes too long.
See above - the spammers' bots don't care about the number of fields ;-)
BTW, our rank on Alexa is lower then ever. Global rank is now 11,300 while it was for years around 8000 (smaller is better).
Don't trust any statistics that you didn't fake yourself ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz --
No, much like a dickhead really. From you, that can only be taken as a compliment. Thanks ;) [> Basil Chupin and Graham Anderson in opensuse-factory]
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