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Hey! Why is our site being flooded so many random postings. Most of this posting are just ads and porn links. Is there a way to remove these posts?

 
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Investigate implementing a CAPTCHA.

 
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No CAPTCHA. If anything maybe throw a reverse/negative captcha on.

 
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Reverse captcha pattern works for dumb robots that go around the web and look for forums. This constitutes 90% of forum and comment spam.

This works until the site is targeted, in which case the spammer scripts the bot properly. I haven’t faced this yet, but my co-workers did.

Still, I think reverse captcha is still a good first measure.

P.S. This 90% stat was made up.

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