Spam

One of the things that I hate the most is having to deal with Captchas, but I hate spam more. When I first set up this website, I was spending hours deleting spam user accounts and posts. Trying to go over my site logs was a nightmare because the majority of the logs were filled filled with bots trying to attack my site. So I gave in and installed captchas. I added extra questions to my webforms to try and filter out the spam. While these efforts helped, the bots just became smarter and found ways to get around them.

One of the biggest headaches that those of us who design and maintain websites have are spammers. Those nefarious people who try to invade your website and use your servers to send out their junk to the masses. Since I maintain my own virtual private server (VPS), one of the biggest problems was spending the time to go in and delete the bogus accounts that were created or checking the logs to see if someone had found a way to insert malicious code into the site.