OMG! What happened to the "regular" Adblock Forum

[rick752]

Has anyone been to the regular Adblock forum lately?

It has literally 1,000 pieces of spam on it (and nothing else) dating back a month. It is a ghost town there ... deserted.

Did they move somewhere else, or did they just close up shop with the project? See for yourself:
http://www.aasted.org/adblock/index.php

[IceDogg]

I stopped visiting it when they let the spam have it(over a month ago). I figured they had finally deserted it completely. At the time there hadn't been a post from any of the developers/admins in over a year. With the exception of Zachariah who was added to control spam (I assume), but hasn't posted since Fri Jan 05, 2007 which is about the time the spam took over and I left. I just got tired of trying to see what was spam and what we real.

[Wladimir Palant]

Yes, I've seen it - at some point Zachariah wrote that he and Henrik were working on a solution but it looks like they pretty much gave up. Their previous spam solution was to require registration, it pretty much killed participation in the forum and worked only until they got a spam robot able of registering in phpBB.

[sheepy]

Traditional captcha no longer cuts it. Cutting edge neural networks can identify them better then human, and open source OCR can handle most free implementations once customised.

There's a captch that throws in 6 words and ask human to pick any two, or pick the word that appeared twice. Last I checked, it is defeated by bots as well.

Recently I've tried one that generates *animated* gifs. Now this is promising. Another that prompt users to pick images based on context is not as simple to implement (need lots of photos, and maybe good eyes and English...), but should work well too.[/code]

[Wladimir Palant]

Any widespread captcha is easily defeated, even without neural networks. It only helps to have a solution that you will see in no more than twenty forums - then hacking it won't be worth the time. That's how this forum stays clean.