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Old 10-11-2007, 07:45 AM
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Default Re: Can You Write a Sure-fire Algorithm to Stop Bots?

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Meh. Leave the drama bomb in the zoo. Withholding "ideas" that aren't implemented, and probably won't be implemented is silly. If the sites cared about the bot problem, if there is a bot problem, they would do something.

Off the top of my head I would think some kind of question written with the letters scrambled would be enough to mess up a bot. Not a captcha but a real, short answer question.

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Not only bots are not an issue currently, but they actually are good for the games.

The ask a question approach unfortunately will not work. While it will ban some fishes with IQ < 20, a good bot will make google search with the question, then look of which of the a,b,c,d answers (or whaever) on the site match best toward what is found in google.
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