TheHockeyist wrote:

djdolphin wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

mathfreak231 wrote:

AonymousGuy wrote:

I think a better implementation would be when clicking on “discuss”, there would be a button which would send you the message. It would be something like

Click on this button to send a confirmation message to you. After clicking it, go to your messages and click on the link that will have appeared. This will allow you to use the forums.
[button]

Unfortunately, where do spambots want to go? The forums. And what will they do if anything stands in their way? Hunt for links that break that down. This has a lower chance of being effective at all because the button to give them instant posting ability is right where they can see it; in the form that they are trying to type in. I liked the original message idea better.

How about after they try to post something, have them click a button to confirm that they are human for the first time and tell them that this button won't appear again?

Robots click buttons to get rid of anything in their path.

How about giving the robots 20 buttons and clicking on a button of a certain color and the location of it varies with each user? For example, “click the red button” and the button might be in the 13th spot for one user, but the 5th spot for the next user. Once it's clicked, you're human!

goldfish678 wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

djdolphin wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

mathfreak231 wrote:

AonymousGuy wrote:

I think a better implementation would be when clicking on “discuss”, there would be a button which would send you the message. It would be something like

Click on this button to send a confirmation message to you. After clicking it, go to your messages and click on the link that will have appeared. This will allow you to use the forums.
[button]

Unfortunately, where do spambots want to go? The forums. And what will they do if anything stands in their way? Hunt for links that break that down. This has a lower chance of being effective at all because the button to give them instant posting ability is right where they can see it; in the form that they are trying to type in. I liked the original message idea better.

How about after they try to post something, have them click a button to confirm that they are human for the first time and tell them that this button won't appear again?

Robots click buttons to get rid of anything in their path.

How about giving the robots 20 buttons and clicking on a button of a certain color and the location of it varies with each user? For example, “click the red button” and the button might be in the 13th spot for one user, but the 5th spot for the next user. Once it's clicked, you're human!

Like stated earlier, the very young humans couldn't do that.

mathfreak231 wrote:

AonymousGuy wrote:

I think a better implementation would be when clicking on “discuss”, there would be a button which would send you the message. It would be something like

Click on this button to send a confirmation message to you. After clicking it, go to your messages and click on the link that will have appeared. This will allow you to use the forums.
[button]

Unfortunately, where do spambots want to go? The forums. And what will they do if anything stands in their way? Hunt for links that break that down. This has a lower chance of being effective at all because the button to give them instant posting ability is right where they can see it; in the form that they are trying to type in. I liked the original message idea better.

TheHockeyist wrote:

djdolphin wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

mathfreak231 wrote:

AonymousGuy wrote:

I think a better implementation would be when clicking on “discuss”, there would be a button which would send you the message. It would be something like

Click on this button to send a confirmation message to you. After clicking it, go to your messages and click on the link that will have appeared. This will allow you to use the forums.
[button]

Unfortunately, where do spambots want to go? The forums. And what will they do if anything stands in their way? Hunt for links that break that down. This has a lower chance of being effective at all because the button to give them instant posting ability is right where they can see it; in the form that they are trying to type in. I liked the original message idea better.

How about after they try to post something, have them click a button to confirm that they are human for the first time and tell them that this button won't appear again?

Robots click buttons to get rid of anything in their path.

How about giving the robots 20 buttons and clicking on a button of a certain color and the location of it varies with each user? For example, “click the red button” and the button might be in the 13th spot for one user, but the 5th spot for the next user. Once it's clicked, you're human!

goldfish678 wrote:

Like stated earlier, the very young humans couldn't do that.

Firedrake969 wrote:

Colorblind people?

TheHockeyist wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Colorblind people?

Good point. Make it somewhere between pure web cyan and pure web blue. I believe that's the color that most colorblind people will find easiest (click the button that's a different color?)

Deerleg wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Colorblind people?

Good point. Make it somewhere between pure web cyan and pure web blue. I believe that's the color that most colorblind people will find easiest (click the button that's a different color?)

Or “click on the button that's shaped like a rectangle?”

dracae wrote:

I don't even know what you guys are talking about.

djdolphin wrote:

How about this?

-snip-

Hmm…

Deerleg wrote:

We're talking about pressing buttons to stop spambots.

TimothyLawyer wrote:

Deerleg wrote:

We're talking about pressing buttons to stop spambots.

The report button seems to work pretty well.

Maybe let new accounts only post in the New Scratchers, Help With Scripts, and Questions about Scratch forums until they prove not to be spambots.

TheHockeyist wrote:

TimothyLawyer wrote:

Deerleg wrote:

We're talking about pressing buttons to stop spambots.

The report button seems to work pretty well.

Maybe let new accounts only post in the New Scratchers, Help With Scripts, and Questions about Scratch forums until they prove not to be spambots.

Grammar corrector, sorry. I misunderstood it the first time around.

Not a bad suggestion! This would really keep spambots under our control!

Deerleg wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

TimothyLawyer wrote:

Deerleg wrote:

We're talking about pressing buttons to stop spambots.

The report button seems to work pretty well.

Maybe let new accounts only post in the New Scratchers, Help With Scripts, and Questions about Scratch forums until they prove not to be spambots.

Grammar corrector, sorry. I misunderstood it the first time around.

Not a bad suggestion! This would really keep spambots under our control!

Yes, this is a good idea!