Colonel Panic wrote:The most effective ones are the monochromatic ones where the letters are distorted, and their edges touch or overlap slightly:
Those are usually not too difficult for humans to read, but current OCR software cannot decipher them.
Usually, I cannot decipher these either. It takes me an average of 45 seconds to tell what the hell I'm supposed to be typing. Then again, I also already have an account and no one's figured out that I'm a spambot yet...
steve wrote:One suggestion was to require all new forum registrations to post in a special "welcome" forum, after which their accounts would be manually unlocked to the rest of the forums if they aren't spambots, and left unactivated if they are. That still requires me to manually activate all new forum members and I'm trying to reduce, not increase my workload.
If this works as intended, it may actually still reduce your workload, in the George Jetson sense of the word 'work.' It should be fairly easy to discern which posts in this theoretical forum are from actual humans instead of spambots, so action would only have to be taken on about 3% of the posts...
I dunno. I still agree with updating phpBB2.
Rick Reuben wrote:You are dumber than week-old donuts.
