Flashificator forum access for the visually challenged?

[DonJuane]

I ran off all my credit attempt to join the Flashificator Forum due to the capitula (sp?). It is the worst one I have ever seen. I have never failed a color blind test but I failed this one. If someone could assist with this, it would be nice. This "enter the hidden word" requirement cropping up all across the Internet seems to be getting out of hand. I am finding more and more of these visual tests I cannot pass even though I have 20/20 vision and I am not color blind. :-(

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Unfortunately the spam-bots are not eliminated from entering by the most difficult settings available... while it does result in problems for normal humans... but it does reduce bot access heavily.

A few months back the forums were spammed continously with all kinds of filth... and that's when the current filtering and captcha were applied. It has greatly reduced the spam access, but a few slip through anyways.

Please send me a PM with the username you would like to have, and which email you would like to be associated with it, and I will make you an account manually. You will be able to change the password for it afterwards.

[DonJuane]

Doing .... done THANKS!

[bjornkn]

I have to agree - that Flashificator captcha is extremely difficult to "solve".
I had to try several times before I finally got one that I managed to decipher.
Does it need to be that hard?

[sachagriffin]

For giggles and a waste of your next ten minutes.
http://www.seosmarty.com/impossible-captcha-it-doesnt-really-matter-if-you-are-human-or-not/

Magic eyes would be better for me at least. At least I can solve those.

I have to agree - that Flashificator captcha is extremely difficult to "solve".
I had to try several times before I finally got one that I managed to decipher.
Does it need to be that hard?

[DonJuane]

Enjoyed your bit of humor!

Nice to see I am not the only one complaining. I first thought it an attempt to rid the planet of the over 40's but maybe not everything is a conspiracy, as much as I'd like to believe otherwise :-)

It seems like it would be an embarrasing job or hobby, someone who is a "captcha hacker". Amazing to me first anyone who would spend their time on writing captcha hack code, would bother spamming small forums or most of all that there is anyone who would lower themselves intellectually or morally into being influenced by the advertising from such.

[sachagriffin]

Another equally important method, is ensure rel="nofollow" is on all outbound links.
Technically, it should be respected by search engines while calculating the search engine results page which is the main reason they spam just edging out the fact people are dumb enough to want to buy viagra from a link on unrelated forms. Inbound links are one of the the most important ways to calculate page rank. nofollow is a directive to say that your domain does not recommend that as one of your outbound links to be used in calculating page rank.

Otherwise, there are even call centers full of douches that post their crap on forums/contact forms in lieu of bots, as evident by spam that still gets through all my protections.

[DonJuane]

Some day I would like to understand what you just said ;-)

Is there a 1 stop guide to learning all this stuff? Or is it worth it as it seems as if search engines would be rewriting algorithms daily to get around these tricks.

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Does it need to be that hard?

Unfortunately yes.

I have been running other forums for the past 7 years. I would sometimes get upto 300 bots signing up on a single day. On last new years eve I cleaned out every single "member" who had not posted at least one meaning ful post, and decided not to bother with cleaning more up for the next year. At the end of february some 9000 new "members" had joined. Since March, only 600 more have joined. I was sure it had to do with some bot central being closed down, and it sure seems like being the case:

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22spam+king%22+%22Sanford+Wallace%22

I wish there was a way to send back a killer virus that would fry the computer the spam came from.

[DonJuane]

Does it generally come from a particular country? Perhaps you could filter by IP? Not sure if that would work.