Personally I've found QuestyCaptcha to be the most reliable. You show the user an image and they have to guess the right answer. It can be configured to have several correct answers and to randomly choose from a list of several image/answers.
I have had zero spammer account creations since I started using it several years ago.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:36 AM, John W. Foster jfoster81747@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 10:07 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
On 11/26/2013 07:38 AM, Arcane 21 wrote:.
only block the IPs and IP ranges that have four or more obvious spammer usernames attached to them, as these are usually mass produced by a bot from zombie computers used to spam.
This is an interesting feature to add to BlockandNuke[1], but it would be good to track if an IP that produces a spammer reappears with a different user name after the spam user has been blocked.
Right now, BlockandNuke just blocks all IP addresses it sees from
spammers.
another thing I would suggest is something to indicate what BlockandNuke is doing. I have it running for great lengths of time and all it says is Banning I know works only when I check the blocked users list & see that BlockandNuke is responsible for a lot of them. Just would like to know how long the process has to run to complete the job while it is doing it. maybe a bar or timer, or something. Thanks john
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