[OSM-talk] Spam in user diaries

clara clara at aktivix.org
Fri Jan 20 16:27:00 GMT 2012


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Hi,

>> Yes indeed, I just tried to show of different alternatives. So why don't
>> we use just captchas before registering new users?
> 
> Because they don't make any difference to real humans, and it is my
> belief that the spammers targeting us are real humans.

And of course there are companies offering low-paid labour to get humans
to fill in the captchas for the spam bots...

But on a practical note: How about using Mollom?
That works quite well on discarding spam automatically per posting, and
asking for confirmation with a captcha for those cases where the system
isn't sure.

http://mollom.com/

clara



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