Stopping Forum Spam

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by sitetutor

The Q and A is a big one with the right Qs. One to add is always "Where are you located?" and I bet you most of the spam bots will be caught in a lie (if they bother to fill that one out).

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Where are you all from?

[sitetutor]

lol thanks, I better be honest then

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by sitetutor

The Q and A is a big one with the right Qs. One to add is always "Where are you located?" ...

The problem with that is three-fold:

• The respondent may not be physically located within the geographical of the assigned IP Address;
• The geographical area covered by an IP block may cover tens of thousands of square miles; and,
• A reverse IP Address look-up may return any number of different physical locations within the area covered by its IP block.

The best questions are those require that the respondent type an answer to a question that allows of exactly one only answer.

E.g.:

• "What day follows Wednesday?"
• "Which is smaller, forty-seven or eighty-six?"
• "What was the numeric day number of the previous Monday?"

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