The CAPTCHA project is a worthy initiative from the Carnegie Mellon University and is commonly found on forms to reduce bot spam and exploits. I was reading an article at NAB’s Money Basics site and happened to notice the CAPTCHA text below the comment form:
While going through my unopened email from last month, the following text caught my eye:
You have received an infraction at SEO Best Practices Search Engine Forums.
Reason: Multiple Spammer
This infraction is worth 50 point(s) and may result in restricted access until it expires. Serious infractions will never expire.
All the best,
SEO Best Practices Search Engine Forums
Again, please do not reply to this email. You must go to the following page to reply to this private message:
http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums/private.php
Early last August I wrote to Foursquare support:
Recently, I spent two weeks in Orlando and its environs. At Cape Canaveral, while standing in front of a tour bus at the bus stand, I was told that I was too far from @Tour Bus @Kennedy Space Center. I took a photo of this message with a parked bus behind it. The bus tour covers a few miles and I tried to check in at a few places. I was finally accepted when the bus was about to enter the main visitor complex, i.e. a few hundred feet from the stop. It seems that whoever created the venue started typing once the bus was under way. Perhaps these moving venues should not be allowed. Continue reading