Re: How do you fight Spam ?
Reply #18 –
NoCAPTCHA is pretty effective with spam as far I know.
Re: How do you fight Spam ?
Reply #19 –
To be honest, I'm having issues to find these users after an hour. Seems like they're getting cleaned up/removed.
I've no post moderation. All the "coupon" don't post.
Re: How do you fight Spam ?
Reply #22 –
Not sure if this is the best thread for this or not, but I've noticed bots spend a lot of time obsessing over the contact form on my forum. Always seemed odd to me. Today I realized that "listen to the letters / request another image" is a high impression phrase for my forum and links to the contact page. (Yes, my forum is very low traffic, that's ok.) I wonder if bots search google for that phrase and then go to the pages to try and do something.
Should the contact form and other registration related forms be marked "robots" / "noindex"? They're certainly not pages I want people to discover my forum through as I can't imagine anyone actually interested in the subject of the forum searching for pages like that.
Thoughts?
Also, other than a code edit to the registration controller to add the tag to context['html_headers'] is there a better way to do this as a mod?
Re: How do you fight Spam ?
Reply #24 –
The directive is not for the bots to respect, but to remove the page from search engines so scripts or bots can't find it there. As I said it is a common search engine driver to my forum even though it is completely generic.
Looking at the who page here I see several guests parked on the contact page as well.
Thanks on the hook.