THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Stopping the Spammer

By Tangotiger, 03:47 PM

An a$$hole is in our midst. He’s as yellow as they come, bouncing from IP to IP. I have a few tools that I can implement, each worse than the other.

The first one I did was force in a “preview” button, that has been a staple at this site. In essence, this forces a double-click, and prevents something automated from posting spam here. Stops most, but not our resident a$$hole, who seems to take perverse pleasure in wasting my time.

My next option is to force you the poster to type in the text you see in an image, like here:
http://www.baseballgraphs.com/main/index.php/site/article/minor_league_organization_reports/
I’m not crazy about it, but, you guys tell me.

My last option is to enable registration, which I despise.

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#1 (see all posts) 2006/11/21 (Tue) @ 17:03

Typing the image text is fine with me. It’s what I implemented on my site.

#2 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2006/11/21 (Tue) @ 18:31

Yeah, I may have to do it.

#3 (see all posts) 2006/11/21 (Tue) @ 18:37

I’d vote for the image text; I don’t like registration either.

#4 obsessivegiantscompulsive (see all posts) 2006/11/21 (Tue) @ 19:15

That is the option I use with Blogger, having the text box; yeah, registration is not that great an option. It cut the spam out completely, haven’t had one since that I can remember.

#5 studes (see all posts) 2006/11/21 (Tue) @ 19:25

Obviously, I like the image/text. I don’t think it’s a pain at all. Also, you could cut out the required preview button if you had it.

I haven’t had one spammer/asshole on baseball graphs at all since I implemented it. Of course, now that I’ve said that…

#6 tangotiger (see all posts) 2006/11/26 (Sun) @ 21:15

Ok, I’ve enabled image-text validation. You’ll see it when you click PREVIEW. Feel free to test it in this thread.

#7 David Smyth (see all posts) 2006/11/26 (Sun) @ 21:46

Test. Test. (Just like I used to shout into a mike in my rock band days of youth).

#8 David Smyth (see all posts) 2006/11/26 (Sun) @ 21:51

Hey, it worked! I haven’t been able to post here for a couple weeks.

And those lost posts were gold, man.

I appreciate that I can actually clearly read Tango’s type-in scramble. Usually when I see that, it’s hard to tell a zero from a letter O, and so on. Good job, Tango.

#9 tangotiger (see all posts) 2006/11/27 (Mon) @ 11:23

It actually came with the software. I just turned it on.

#10 Tangotiger (see all posts) 2007/01/03 (Wed) @ 18:00

Some people have been having problems posting. I made a small change to the blog system. Please use this thread to see if posting helps.

#11 AED (see all posts) 2007/01/03 (Wed) @ 19:54

ok, giving it a shot…

#12 Tom Meagher (see all posts) 2007/01/03 (Wed) @ 23:55

been having problems too.

#13 studes (see all posts) 2007/01/04 (Thu) @ 14:13

I wonder if there’s a browser issue? I hate the new version of Explorer (and I think the new version of Office is going to ruin our lives).

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