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| Author: | Richard Siemers [ Thu Sep 11, 2014 12:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Spam |
We've been getting a bit of it lately. It appears to be all coming from India IP addresses. I'm looking into tightening down the human check question for registering... Today its a simple math problem requiring a human to read numbers spelled out in english and supply the answer. I am thinking of kicking that up a notch to asking a HP storage related question that could be universally answered by new, potential, and existing 3PAR customers easily... anyone have any ideas? |
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| Author: | Josh26 [ Thu Sep 11, 2014 6:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam |
It's a difficult one. People get upset by Captchas but the facts are they do work. Nothing however will address a person happy to manually type things out. A storage question would be an interesting one because people interested in diet and Xboxs are likely to have a very hard time finding the correct answer. Have you looked at Akismet? |
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| Author: | 3padm [ Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam |
Hi, I would say it would have to be a trick question, one which does not return the answer when searched . Such as 'what is the maximum number of disks a 3par fabric can hold' to someone who *gets* stuff will look at that and realise that the question doesn't even make sense but to an untrained person it may seem legit.. Some method in the madness ?? |
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| Author: | 3ParDude_1 [ Thu Sep 25, 2014 2:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam |
I think it needs to be kept really simple so even new guy can get access to the forum. Something like what is RAID? Yes it could be googled but at least it provides an extra barrier to put people off and ensures new people can access the site. |
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| Author: | Richard Siemers [ Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam |
I went with: "What category best describes HP 3PAR? (match case please)" The listed some basic computer categories like RAM, CPU, Network etc etc... seems to be working. =) |
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| Author: | 3padm [ Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam |
Wham, bam, no more spam : o ) |
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