Regarding Spambots

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Re: Regarding Spambots

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I'm pretty sure that'd keep out more actual people than spambots.

Really, it'd probably be for the best to just disable registration altogether.
Let's face it, this forum is dead. We don't get any new people anyway, Egoboo doesn't seem to be worked on anymore, and Zefz and birdsey have been inactive for quite a while. So, rather than allowing spambots to rampage around here, we could just stop them altogether so that the few of us who're still here can continue using the forums in peace.
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Re: Regarding Spambots

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"If tomorrow is Tuesday, what day is today?"

Just something I saw when registering into a forum recently. An actual, logical question of this sort might work.
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Gimme a list of questions and I'll add them.
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All we need is something that can't be searched. I thought of this just now:
"Write the second letter of every word in this sentence in succession, without spaces."
and the answer to that would be... well, a bunch of letters, but bots will never be able to figure it out.

Another one:
"If a train leaves the station traveling one hundred kilometers per hour, how many words are in this sentence?"

Flawless logic. :D
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Kingdom of Loathing uses "What color was George Washington's favorite black horse?"

Perhaps there should be a function that tracks which question a user answered when registering, so if more spambots appear, we can see which question let them through.
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"How many kilograms does a word weigh?"
"What was small for man according to Neil Armstrong?"
"If this sentence ended in the punctuation mark that it ends in, which it does, what would it be?"
"According to physics as we know them now, is it possible or impossible to know how to travel faster than light?"
"What is this smiling man doing?"

Worst questions ever, and probably confusing, but well...
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A kilogram isn't a weight (it's mass). The weight in SI is the newton. Even then, a word can't weigh anything :|
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Shade wrote:I'm pretty sure that'd keep out more actual people than spambots.
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penguinflyer5234 wrote:A kilogram isn't a weight (it's mass).
But... it's correct to say "I weigh around 80 kilos". :o
penguinflyer5234 wrote:Even then, a word can't weigh anything :|
That was the whole point. :P
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There needs to be a logical answer, "haha fooled you there is no weight of a word" isn't a (good) logical answer :|
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penguinflyer5234 wrote:A kilogram isn't a weight (it's mass).
Yes it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram-force

1 kg mass translates to 1 kg force (weight) on Earth.
The weight scale you have at home measures kgf (or, in PF's case, being in the US, it is most likely lbf, pound-force).
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I just deleted it, wondering where its post went between reading and deleting :(
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Like I said, we are fast. :D
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