Moderator Comment by Chris Anderson on June 13, 2009 at 12:53pm

That's spam. We catch it quickly and ban the posters quickly which is why you don't see it on the site, but we can't stop it from getting into the RSS feed. Just ignore it.

Moderator Comment by Giles Barton-Owen on June 13, 2009 at 1:09pm

Thanks for the help.

Comment by IKE on June 13, 2009 at 2:19pm

I don't know how easy would it be to embed it in this software but from my experience by far the most effective anti-spam method is to ask a question in the register form for new members.
The question should be something like: "what colour is a banana?" and only if the answer is "yellow" should the registration process continue. This effectively cuts-off all the bots.

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on June 13, 2009 at 3:04pm

I asked Chris the same question IKE,

His response was that real people register and then hand over to the robots.

Moderator Comment by Sgt Ric on June 13, 2009 at 3:29pm

But certainly forcing humans into the preocess must slow the spread of the crap down a ton (?).

Moderator Comment by Giles Barton-Owen on June 14, 2009 at 12:26pm

There has only been two spammers on the site so it probably was initiated by people. I like the idea of the question and I should think they are pretty effective. some sites have a write the code above thing and then in the notes underneath the title of the section a thing saying write a number like 6000. It makes figuring out the code alot easier and wastes computer time.

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