Just recently I have had a few odd problems when using Google Reader to view the "Everybodies Blog Posts - DIYDrones" feed. The last 7 posts to go on the feed (from Fred and Den) have had after them about 100 links after the small body of text. The ads (I think that's what they are) seem to have no relavence to the post. The posts themselves seem pretty unconnected with the DIYDrones theme but it is an open area so I don't mind. Could someone test to see if they have had a similar problem when using Google Reader with this feed.
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.
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.
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.
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His response was that real people register and then hand over to the robots.
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.