I been seeing spam on devrant lately. It is usually a new account which only have 1 rant (a spam)

Maybe devrant should include some kind of "Are you a developer captcha" which make you fix a bug before creating an account.

Honestly? Great idea.
You should maybe tag it as devRant so our lords get on it.
Or ping @dFox

They'd just Google it or post on SO asking for help. Guarantee it

@Stuxnet not if it's a bot?

@Ranchu ohhh I thought this was targeting the new users that just shit post "teach me code" and get downvoted out of existence.

Not the ad bots lmao

Green dots should pass the fizzbuzz test before posting 😅

Truth be told, building an automated, randomized (and safe) coding test people couldn't find pre-written answers to would be both time-consuming to implement and annoying for new users. Not everyone here writes code; some users are designers (or PHP devs 😉).

Maybe having a time limit like three days before you're allowed to post rants would work better. There's already a limit on posting links.

So if you'd be a very new developer you couldn't join? Or if you're a cybersecurity person or sysadmin or dba?

@Frederick No, I agree. I'd only support anything like this if the problem gets substantially worse.

@Root

I thought a simple coding task will do the trick like "make it break out of infinite loop" or "add/remove semi-comma in the code to make it work"

Make the question so generic searching on google will give generic answer.

@linuxxx maybe have an options to choose what kind of captcha you want based on your career.

@neeno

Who would ++ you if you are not allowed to post/rant?

@neeno

Now that I think about it , you are right. It's a "Cobra problem"

We need to only think about it when spams run wild.

@mr-user But what if you're just peeking around because you're interested in entering the dev world but have zero knowledge on it yet?

I don't think this is a real problem. It will probably start killing the community if people can't join. Plus I haven't seen real spam, quote an example. Also lets not try to ruin this community making it like StackOverflow.

@Bybit260

Guess I am making it too developer-centrist which is never a good thing.

@linuxxx

I don't want to turn away those people who is just taking a peep. I forget devrant exist for people other than dev.

It was a fun idea tho', +1

I feel like, inevitably, spammers'd make automated solutions to anything we throw at them. Hell, they're keeping up in the race against Google's captcha ffs