I dont know about other directory owners but spam is one of the biggest pains in the backside barring none. With the ever increasing tactics employed by spammers encouraged by weak captcha are we doing enough as directory owners or script providers to fight back?
As expected with a new directory script the phpLynx it was bound to be a target and we felt confident that with our unique text/graphic anti-bot captcha system we'd beaten them. Well we have with submissions as spam is zero, you do get the odd one who will take the time to sit down for a week answering the captcha questions but all in all its all but eliminated bots.
Not content with spamming the submissions pages they targeted the 'feedback' area of the script, and sh*t I hadn't though of that one! So obvious but it took a deadhead with questionable intentions to point this out to me. It took a few hours and there you go, we put the
anti-bot into the mail system as well.
Have any other scripts taken steps to combative measures against Spam? I know Anon (Rob) from phpld has made a mod for the phpld script that can prevent it but are there others who have followed suit?
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