05-14-2013, 07:54 AM
Thats because the riddles are too simple and something any bot can be programmed to understand. You need something that most PEOPLE will understand but a bot would have a hard time understanding this is more often then not simply done by making questions related to the content of your site. I run a forum for staff of a MLP convention, bots were a huge problem with stupip silly squiggly letters so it was my job to come up with a way to make them stop.
I decided to use questions, since its MLP i used the following.
Q:Which pony is the main character of the first and second episodes, "Mare in the Moon" and "Friendship is Magic"?
A:Twilight Sparkle
Q:In the episode "Lesson Zero", Twilight is almost late for a friendship report, and fears Princess Celestia will send her somewhere if she is tardy. Where does she think she will be sent to?
A:Magic Kindergarten
Q:True or False. Fluttershy lives in Cloudsdale, a city in the sky, with Rainbow Dash.
A:False
Q:In the episode "Boast Busters", what creature comes to Ponyville to wreak havoc because Snips and Snails awoke it?
A:Ursa Minor
Q:Who provides the voice of Twilight Sparkle?
A:Tara Strong
The server would select one of these at random during registration. They made perfect sense to actual people who understood the question and knew the content but to a random bot they made no sense and it was unable to reply. Happy to report there have been no bot accounts on the site for over a year. I would recommend you guys do something similar
I decided to use questions, since its MLP i used the following.
Q:Which pony is the main character of the first and second episodes, "Mare in the Moon" and "Friendship is Magic"?
A:Twilight Sparkle
Q:In the episode "Lesson Zero", Twilight is almost late for a friendship report, and fears Princess Celestia will send her somewhere if she is tardy. Where does she think she will be sent to?
A:Magic Kindergarten
Q:True or False. Fluttershy lives in Cloudsdale, a city in the sky, with Rainbow Dash.
A:False
Q:In the episode "Boast Busters", what creature comes to Ponyville to wreak havoc because Snips and Snails awoke it?
A:Ursa Minor
Q:Who provides the voice of Twilight Sparkle?
A:Tara Strong
The server would select one of these at random during registration. They made perfect sense to actual people who understood the question and knew the content but to a random bot they made no sense and it was unable to reply. Happy to report there have been no bot accounts on the site for over a year. I would recommend you guys do something similar