A way to prevent Spam Bots from Entering this Forum

[Demonik]

Hahaha! Mate, if that were real, we wouldn't have any real moderators at all.

[Firestar]

Well what about having them put in names? their real one. Surely they couldnt get past that.

[MICrophone]

But then new users who are not spammers would have to put in their names, which some people might not feel comfortable doing. I know that I wouldn't have at the time that I registered.

[Firestar]

Well spambots fill in EVERYTHING dont they? then we could put in OPTIONAL. problem almost solved.

[MessengerOfDreams]

Well what about having them put in names? their real one. Surely they couldnt get past that.

But then new users who are not spammers would have to put in their names, which some people might not feel comfortable doing. I know that I wouldn't have at the time that I registered.

Well spambots fill in EVERYTHING dont they? then we could put in OPTIONAL. problem almost solved.

Kid, you kill yourself with your own logic.

[Suyo]

Hey guise, let's look at the sourcecode of this posting page here.

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<dl style="clear: left;">
      <dt><label for="subject">Subject:</label></dt>
      <dd><input name="subject" id="subject" size="45" maxlength="64" tabindex="2" class="inputbox autowidth" type="text"></dd>
   </dl>[/code
And this is what we want:
[code]<input name="subject" id="subject" size="45" maxlength="64" tabindex="2" class="inputbox autowidth" type="text">[/code]

This is the textfield for the Subject. You can easily recognize that...
[b]maxlength="64"[/b] - there can be only 64 characters in there
[b]size="45"[/b] - the field is 45 characters long

... but what's with [b]name="subject"[/b] and [b]id="subject"[/b]?

Every field has an ID. And that's what the spambots use.
Bots just go like
[code]Fill in "Free pr0n" in the textfield with the id "subject"

And that's how we can reduce spam - we could just change the ID of the textfield and WHAM!

L2's suggestion is simpler, and can also work this way. If we change the ID of the buttons to "zuvfigghf", no spambot will have that on his list, and they get denied on registering.


tl;dr
It works.

[Zed98]

Well, lets hope so!

[TrappedTime]

I have a better idea[got this from a nerd forum I signed up on].

1.There is a big group of letters, mostly the same ones repeated tons of times.
2.Each letter sends you to the same page but one.
3.That one letter is the first _ in the group.
4.Only humans could be able to do that[since spam bots don't read].

Good idea?

[spookyghost]

We could do both the activation code and the change id for the buttons thing, and it's solved!
(Also TBG, your's won't work because spambots will try-try again, and they are destined to get it right sometime.)

[PuppetOfMisery]

Bumpy Time!

Okay I found another way to get rid of them. What we could do is that when users register, Runouw activates them instead of themself