Something's gotta be done with these spammers... they're messing up the whole forum!! what is this a new styled spam attack.. posting spam in irrelevant threads???

right
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5145&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

i visited at least 3 threads like that!

Give me a sec guys I'm getting them as fast as I can.

that twat is constantly posting.. must be bot

atleast 18 spammessages in one minute
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=25048

including marco's first post ever!lol complaining he ain't gettin' votes!! hahaha!!!

Save us bill!!!

I got all of the new topics and the replies, except for one topic, which I don't have the ability to delete as of this moment, working on it.

Bravo, Stephen! Keep up the great work... there's plenty there!

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=429212

One more at the bottom of this thread
http://photoshopcontest.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=6507&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

It would be funny if this thread was spammed...

Found a cool technique that Procyon may want to look into!

http://damienkatz.net/2007/01/negative_captch.html

More detail at http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html

Basically the idea is to use standard CSS to make a hidden field in the form (not using the "hidden" attribute of the input field). Bots ignore CSS and would see the hidden field and fill it in. Human viewers wouldn't do that (unless they disabled CSS and if they did well shame on them). Anyway when the form is submitted then backend code looks at the contents of the field. If it's empty then the post is allowed. If the field is filled in then it's disallowed.

Won't stop the flesh and blood spammer scum but it'd help curtail the bots.

Cool idea!