Turing Numbers... Why so hard to read??
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Turing Numbers... Why so hard to read??
I fully understand why some forms use turing numbers for validation, but why does the graphic have to be soooo hard to read sometimes? Why not a perfectly legible/readable graphic? How does making the graphic hard to read further prevent spambots? Is there something I don't know? 
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And worse.. There are sites that pay people to complete turing numbers for other sites, or offer access to free adult material, and so on. Turing tests honestly are almost completely useless, however, because spambots are such a big problem even a minor improvement is worthwhile.seodevhead wrote:Mann.... have I underestimated spambots that much!?!?! They use OCR for the turing numbers?????
Personally, I can't stand them. I'd rather sites didn't use them, but it isn't my choice.
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I bet you could use the spamassassin perl script or C file to scan for spam in on a website even though it's intended for email. That sounds like an interesting project to play with 
WordPress has some built in spam detection based on keywords... that would be simple enough to implement if you could get a good list of keywords to handle point scoring on.
WordPress has some built in spam detection based on keywords... that would be simple enough to implement if you could get a good list of keywords to handle point scoring on.