http://robcottingham.ca/2006/05/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/ Meeting your social media humor needs since 1963 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://robcottingham.ca/2006/05/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-3207 Evan Leeson Sat, 20 May 2006 19:11:10 +0000 http://www.robcottingham.ca/20060519/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/#comment-3207 I just implemented http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/did_you_pass_math/ on my blog. We'll see if this gets rid of them. I just implemented http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/did_you_pass_math/ on my blog. We’ll see if this gets rid of them.

]]> http://robcottingham.ca/2006/05/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-3186 Evan Leeson Sat, 20 May 2006 03:39:34 +0000 http://www.robcottingham.ca/20060519/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/#comment-3186 wow...that's a lot of hands, since my blog has been swamped with at least 100 of these in the last couple days...there must be some machine intelligence at work with humans just sitting there entering one captcha after another. Nice job for ex-party officials. wow…that’s a lot of hands, since my blog has been swamped with at least 100 of these in the last couple days…there must be some machine intelligence at work with humans just sitting there entering one captcha after another. Nice job for ex-party officials.

]]> http://robcottingham.ca/2006/05/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-3172 Rob Fri, 19 May 2006 18:44:51 +0000 http://www.robcottingham.ca/20060519/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/#comment-3172 I'd thought it was just a script, but if they're getting past captchas, you're probably right... it sounds like this is hands on keyboards. I’d thought it was just a script, but if they’re getting past captchas, you’re probably right… it sounds like this is hands on keyboards.

]]> http://robcottingham.ca/2006/05/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-3171 Phillip Djwa Fri, 19 May 2006 18:07:22 +0000 http://www.robcottingham.ca/20060519/how-to-stop-new-user-spam-on-wordpress/#comment-3171 Interesting, we've been inundated on a client's forum with the same .ru spam registrations. They are able to get by the captcha deal which really sucks. Are they doing this by hand? Interesting, we’ve been inundated on a client’s forum with the same .ru spam registrations. They are able to get by the captcha deal which really sucks. Are they doing this by hand?

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