I don't know if this has been brought up before but I think the best way to deal with SPAM is having an image where the user has to type in the "distorted" letters in order to post. I think the whole banning IPs and domains is not very effective.

There is already a captcha hack for b2evolution, and the next public release will contain a plugin to enable captcha. captcha is the image thing, and I personally am glad it's a plugin because I will be able to not use it. To me it's a stupid test that (a) depends on your server being able to build the image and (b) your visitor being able to see the image and (c) you end up telling your visitor to pass the stupid test every damned time they want to comment.

I won't go there.

Personally I prefer (and will make) a simple turing test for 1.6 and beyond that will be required ONCE in a commenter's life. It will be no more complex than a text field, which they obviously can deal with if they can fill in the name field.

Anyway if you're running a .9.* version you should search the plugins and hacks forum (and maybe the 'got spam forum instead) for captcha by whoo. You'll find it, and apparently it is pretty damned popular.

Ah cool! Thanks for the pointer! I'll see if I can get it to work.

arghhhhhh got hundreds of spam trackbacks this night :( in which table of mysql can I delete all my trackbacks?

kind regars
joachim

EdB wrote:

There is already a captcha hack for b2evolution, and the next public release will contain a plugin to enable captcha ...

Something very strange happened to me today regarding the Captcha fix. I found what looks like automated spam on my blog that is captcha enabled.

Now it could be hand spam but what do you all think? Should I change fonts?

I left it up.

http://seat.defcode.com/index.php/2004/04/22/insanity#comments

On a side note my wife noticed that she can't post from the backend with the captcha fix in. I'll have to do some more hacking to get that to work.