Looks like I won...but I am still working. - Annoyances - Site News
Posted on: 2007-03-14 15:23:13

A few days ago, I mentioned about how I thought I was successful in stopping our blog spam, and it looks like I was right. All of the spam that was coming has been blocked. It had been my total mess up in the code that did it, but that is remedied now. I am still working to clean some things up, and I am about halfway through a rewrite of the algorithm that displays the captcha string.

I am also going to use the little bit of info I have found out during this process to do a little work with images, emoticons, bbcodes, and previews. All of which will be a while before I roll out.

Captchas
Posted: 2007-03-16 10:18:03, by Joe (dad-in-law)

Does this mean that the captchas will be more readable? Or more of them?

Joe

Maybe and no.
Posted: 2007-03-16 11:34:48, by talam

I am going to look at some better font choices that might make it easier to read, but it is supposed to be kind of hard to read. As for more of them, that is not likly. We really just want to put them on posts that are generating a lot of spam. I personally don't like captchas, so I have no desire to put them on every post.

Spam
Posted: 2007-03-16 13:47:20, by Joe (dad-in-law)

What type of email generates a lot of spam? (How do they get spam from the processed lunch meat?)

Joe

Spam 2
Posted: 2007-03-16 13:48:49, by Joe (dad-in-law)

(try this again) What type of posting generates a lot of spam?

Joe

These two.
Posted: 2007-03-16 14:22:34, by talam

wig/252 and wig/387

Basically, these two posts have drawn attention to a spambot. I assume that either those two posts pop up on keyword searches in a search engine and were picked up that way or someone traveled from one of these two posts to a, um, shadey wegsite.

As for the content of the spam. It is always lots of repeating text dealing with gambling. The content is fairly meaningless in itself, but there is also a piece of javascript that pings various online ad agencies. It would seem that they are trying to generate free ad revenue from anyone who visited their links.

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