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Negative captcha anyone?

Did anyone try out using negative captcha to prevent spamposts and blogs?

Negative captcha = an invincible form that spam bots will fill in, but a human visitor will not see (and therefor not fill in). If it’s filled in – it’s a spambot.

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:50:39
  • Qlof
    • The Crimson Coder

    The captcha doesn’t seem to keep spambots away for me anymore. I delete spam blogs every other day. The most annoying thing about it is that their posts remain in the latest posts sitewide feed.

    Which reminds me: Does the sitewide posts plugin here generade a feed? If so, I want to use it instead of the old sitewide feed plugin.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    On iPhone. You mean old sitewide by itdamage? Plugin did not check for span or private or archive. Forget specific fix but look code for blog list SQL line and add check for spam=0 archive=0 etc. Mu forums discussed. If needbe email on contact page of blog. It’ll be Monday though

  • Qlof
    • The Crimson Coder

    Hehe it’s funny how you try to keep it short when you’re on your iPhone :slight_smile:.

    Anyway, I’ll do that. Thanks for the advice.

    Still, does the post indexer from this site generate a feed? If not, it could be a cool addition. I mean it merges posts anyway so it seems like it could be easy to add an option to generate a feed for the last 10 posts or whatever.

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hehe it’s funny how you try to keep it short when you’re on your iPhone

    Just for reference, it takes me 4-5 minutes to write what you see up there. I have a lot of problems with the iPhone keyboard. Spend most of my time backspacing to fix errors. It’s very frustrating for me and when I write long, I get to the point I want to throw the thing against the wall.

    I don’t think the plugin generates a feed. Someone may be able to code something that’ll work if you look how the rss.php file works. I’m not in a position to code right now although I’m trying to work something out.