Comments on: p2pnet comment spam

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:07:33 +0000

I haven’t seen very much in a LOOOOOONG time!!!!!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:04:05 +0000

To those complaining about the captcha: Would you rather be exposed to all the spam that captcha PREVENTS? If you’re too lazy to use the captcha, what you have to say must have little importance. So thx for being lazy and sparing us your drivel.

And about Cookies?: Quit being computer dummies and LEARN how your OS works and then tweak the daylights out of it so it’ll do what YOU want it to! Instead of just being a “passenger”, *YOU* _BE_ the DRIVER!!!!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:56:17 +0000

Jon is one special human being for keeping it that way.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:31:43 +0000

Yes. That’s why this site rocks.

Thanks Jon for taking the time to delete spam while keeping the anonymity.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:03:23 +0000

Thanks. I’ll have a look.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:02:45 +0000

Thanks Danijel.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:02:07 +0000

Thanks for the thought, but I want p2pnet posts to continue to be anonymous. That allows anyone to post and doesn’t restrict comments to a limited number people.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:37:13 +0000

I know that I’m particularly lazy, in that if I’m required to register to a web site before posting a comment, 9-times-out-of-10, I won’t. This might be an effective deterrent from spammers, as I’m sure they’re just as lazy as the rest of us.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:17:25 +0000

Kitten Auth. It is captcha with cats.
http://www.kittenauth.com/
OR dolphins or something like that

There is also the captcha used by mhaddins.tk on his forum. I had never seen it before and it is 3d

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:12:13 +0000

In a survey you mentioned an incoming new look, which implies a redesign. Maybe, if it’s not too late, you could consider using a content management framework like Drupal, which among many other useful modules has a very advanced “spam” module that uses a bayesian filter to filter out spam, in addition to its own algorithm.

I’ve been using it for a while on two of my sites and it’s been quite impressive at properly detecting spam comments and unpublishing them as unapproved in the moderation queue, upon which you can easily delete them.

I actually use it on one of my sites in a combination with the math captcha (no image). Math captcha is where before posting, the user is asked a very simple math question (like what is 7 – 3) and you have to put in the correct answer.

With the spam module and this captcha we barely get any spam on our sites.

Anyway, it’s just a suggestions.

Best Regards
Danijel (Libervis.net)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:11:19 +0000

I took a while of not posting because captcha was very hard to make out in Firefox. Sometimes I just gave up in trying to post a reply after 12 or more attempts.

You have grown in your abilities as a webmaster, Jon. The reply no longer disappears if you get the captcha wrong. As another responder to your survey made mention of allowing cookies became important to the post threw me off for a bit.

It’s something I normally watch very closely and delete after moving on from site to site as normal practice. When I can, I default for not allowing cookies as well as http blockage. This is one of the few sites I don’t look at as hard as most when it comes to dealing with the two.

Still my normal surfing habits are to not allow them when possible or to deal with returning the settings to my defaults right before I move on and removing those items I don’t want in my browser. Call me paranoid, call me a cuckoo, or whatever, but I’m a firm believer of if you don’t protect your privacy, no one will do it for you.

Since I see my comment within this article, I certainly know you read it even if I don’t know how to spell captcha.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:38:08 +0000

these hosting providers make their money off of advertising, not people paying them for crappy hosting.

its like wondering why google doesn’t move faster to takedown copyrighted videos. it drives traffic!