Mechanical Turk invades Cocoontech?

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There's are several new posts today that embody the definition of non sequitur.

Random, folksy musings that have absolutely nothing to do with the posted topic and are just shy of being spam. Say, did you hear the one about the PC cup holder ...?

I suspect we have a rogue Mechanical Turk that is scraping "Life's Like That" from the Reader's Digest site and depositing it here. Maybe Cocoontech's sign-up process needs a Turing Test to weed out the bots?

 

[electron]

You might want to check out the sign up process, there is already a test in place, heck I even disabled CAPTCHA because the bot question is effective while CAPTCHA isn't. The problem is that bots are not the ones signing up, sign ups are done by real people. The posts were deleted before this post was made, so not too many people were bothered.

 

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Dan,

I should've put a smiley face at the end of my post ... it was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to point out that someone was posting like a bot.

I have no doubts about the effectiveness of Cocoontech's sign-up process nor your vigilance. You run a tight ship and that's why those posts stuck out like a sore thumb.

 

[cornutt]

You might want to check out the sign up process, there is already a test in place, heck I even disabled CAPTCHA because the bot question is effective while CAPTCHA isn't.

I'm an admin on another Web site, and we found the same thing -- the "are you human" question on the registration page stopped a lot of the bots that were getting past the CAPTCHA.