And so an idea occurs…

I thought of a kind of cool idea. In addition to this captcha, we could have one of those questions like “what’s 2 plus 1?”. Above the answer field we’d have an image which says something like “Answer the question”. I’m hoping the spam bots would think this image is another captcha, and type “Answer the question” into the answer field instead of the actual answer to 2 plus 1. Of course humans, would realize that this image is not infact another captcha, and simple a clarifying message. Might work

The problem is a lot of the spam accounts are being created with e-mail addresses from legitimate services like Gmail, so I can’t even block the e-mail domain.  I do actually wonder how they’re registering the Gmail accounts, assuming the Gmail accounts are created automatically.  Invitations I suppose?? Last I checked Gmail has that SMS verification otherwise… And I dislike IP address banning for a variety of reasons - including that IP addresses often change, so it could also end up banning an innocent user; for the same reason it might not even block the intended user from reaching the site.

 Captcha is not all that bad, is it?

Edit: Looks like Google removed the SMS verification for registering new Gmail accounts.

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