- Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:31 pm
#21626
Hey Bill and others,
I was talking to one of my coworkers here at SFE inquiring into how to limit the spammers. He mentioned that all the forums he ever joined were basically spam-fests... except for the ones he had to pay for. Hmmm.
I don't suggest we start a cover charge at the door, but is there a sensible way to keep the spammers out? The image registration image doesn't work on the humans who are paid to create spam accounts. I am thinking that we should grandfather the current 5000+ users in, but then limit new forum users to current customers of SFE that have a valid order # with SFE and a matching email address. Perhaps that is a bit too harsh so we could then offer some sort of a general entry application. Such application should entail drawing us a pretty picture of a person in a field flying a kite or some such hoop to jump through.
Does anyone have experience to making it just hard enough to enter that the spammers go elsewhere?
-Nathan
I was talking to one of my coworkers here at SFE inquiring into how to limit the spammers. He mentioned that all the forums he ever joined were basically spam-fests... except for the ones he had to pay for. Hmmm.
I don't suggest we start a cover charge at the door, but is there a sensible way to keep the spammers out? The image registration image doesn't work on the humans who are paid to create spam accounts. I am thinking that we should grandfather the current 5000+ users in, but then limit new forum users to current customers of SFE that have a valid order # with SFE and a matching email address. Perhaps that is a bit too harsh so we could then offer some sort of a general entry application. Such application should entail drawing us a pretty picture of a person in a field flying a kite or some such hoop to jump through.
Does anyone have experience to making it just hard enough to enter that the spammers go elsewhere?
-Nathan