Cocoaforge spam

[Graham Booker]

On Oct 22, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Robert Vehse wrote:

> I hate to say it but spam has really gotten out of hand recently.
> 
> I'm thinking of trying a Q&A Captcha (https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2122696) with a question along the lines of "which drink does this forum refer to?".

I did the same sort of thing with the awkwardtv forums (AppleTV hacking).  Basically, I made the questions plainly obvious for anyone who knew what the forum was about, but a bot would not know nor would anyone seeing the question out of context.  It killed the spam entirely.

I might suggest a few questions.  Since it rotates between them and someone may not understand one particular question, that gives them a chance to try another which they may better understand.

> 
> Any objections? Any suggestions for a suitable question? (It should probably work for users of the whole forum, not just Adium users.)

Another questions could be:

This forum refers to several products.  Who makes the hardware they runs on?  (Apple)

> Regards,
> Robbie


- Graham