Testing out new anti-spam technology. Bear with us.

As you may have noticed we've been getting a lot of spammers lately posting comments, so we're trying out some new anti-spam technology that will prevent some comments from being posted. If you have any trouble posting comments please let us know, so we can try to get the anti-spam algorithm tweaked correctly.

Comments

RickyRombo's picture

oh can I make a suggestion? Can there be descriptions for flash games that are on the pages the games are played? I find it weird that I need to comment to provide instructions.

Rockdude's picture

I am not able to comment. It is being marked as spam.

Ricky's picture

hahaha, RickyRombo, it's giving you a 79% likely spam for your comment

Cecil's picture

SPLAM SPAM!!!!!

OldManClayton's picture

:O It gives spammage likeliness?

jonathanq's picture

This is strange... what do you mean by spam?

Ricky's picture

jonathanq We try to delete most of it so you probably haven't seen it. There are loads of fake accounts posting huge posts that make no sense or are trying to get us to buy something on their website.

Eliyahu's picture

Why don't you use CAPTCHAs on comments? I mean some of them might be real people posting, but arent some bots?

BTW not counted as spam :D yay im not spam!

KetchupMaster's picture

We don't know whether they are bots or not. We have a captcha on the registration page, and they get past that. I think cecil even talked to one of the spammers on the chat before. So I dunno if a comment captcha would help, and it would be pretty annoying for real users to do a captcha everytime you want to post a comment.

OldManClayton's picture

Hey, at least you're getting real person spammers!

Which sounds more stupid than I intended, now that I think about it.

Eliyahu's picture

I know what you mean... haha if you guys had ads you'd still be getting paid green

ryanachronism's picture

Replace captcha with a text question such as "Whats two plus 5?" and you'll do a much better job of filtering out spam accounts.

Most captchas have been broken by AI bots.

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RickyRombo's picture

How about a limit on the length of a comment?

Watermelon876's picture

Okay then. That's great if it works.

Neomonkey's picture

This spam filter is fail..

Eliyahu's picture

Hahahaha I finally got the connection between the picture and the title xD how did I not see that before?!? Very punny, guys.

Watermelon876's picture

Your spam filter is fail. I was posting a legitimate answer in pseudocode to an AI problem and got marked as spam.

Ricky's picture

It may slip up once in a while but it has caught loads of spam. It is worth it.

KetchupMaster's picture

I approved your comment Watermelon876.

RickyRombo's picture

Did you end up taking my advice and putting length of membership as a factor in the algorithm?

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jonathanq We try to delete most of it so you probably haven't seen it. There are loads of fake accounts posting huge posts that make no sense or are trying to get us to buy something on their website.

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