I finally created a frickin favicon, after a whole year and then some. I got sick and tired of people spamming my paste bin, so I created two primitive anti-spam methods. One generates a 6 digit hex key which you type in (Unfortunately, not a CAPTCHA), another one simply generates a basic math question and you have to input the correct answer. Spam bots are pretty sophisticated these days, and they could easily be written to overcome these (Heck they even overcome some CAPTCHAs). If that happens, I have one last idea to implement, but I won’t do it unless it’s absolutely necessary. The paste ID was going up to like 120,000 or something, and all thanks to spam. I deleted all the spam and brought the auto-increment key back down to like 241. Remember, my paste bin is just a modified version of the real paste bin. It includes such features as:
» Password protected pastes
» Anti-Spam Keys
» Anti-Spam Math Questions
» Archival support
Sorry if the new anti-spam measures are annoying, but the spam was even more annoying and I think it’s one of the reasons my site has been going slow lately, being hit by thousands of spammers.
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