Oxford, UK
I'm a D.Phil (doctoral) theoretical chemistry student at the University of Oxford. Over the last year and a half I've been developing a site for my college boat club.
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bcbccouk posted a reply on the forum topic Fighting Splogs: 3 months ago
Signup questions and codes are a good supplement to the other methods but are also ultimately fallible. In the same way that Captcha is rendered ineffective by human relay attack, so to are questions; it will just take time for spammers to catch on.
It seems to me that the way forward is to incrementally roll [...] -
bcbccouk posted a reply on the forum topic Fighting Splogs: 3 months ago
It works…for the moment. (There’s an obvious way around the hidden fields method). I’ve got some other ideas to make it harder to regex the html, I’ll post back when I’m done.
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bcbccouk posted a reply on the forum topic Fighting Splogs: 3 months ago
stwc’s summary of methods does seem to stop a lot of spam, but I’ve still been having some. I tried SI Capthca (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress) but that seemed completely ineffective.
My latest weapon in the war has been to modify Invisible Defender (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invisible-defender) firstly to make it work with the buddypress registration page and secondly obfuscate its hidden [...]
