Ask Fedora being badgered by spam

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Fri May 30 12:14:37 UTC 2014


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On 05/30/2014 06:23 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 15:22 +0530, Akshay Vyas wrote:
>> I don't think captcha will work, these are not bots, these are
>> the normal human who is intentional posting adds n all kinds of
>> marketing material
> 
> I'd expect them to be bots. A human wouldn't be able to post 50 
> questions in 3 minutes :/
> 

No, but a human can do the signup and then point a bot at the site
once the sign-up is complete. (Not saying this is what happened, just
that it can)

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