We use a honeypot. There is a field on the registration page that is hidden using CSS tricks. If it is filled in when registering, the registration is ignored because no human would ever have even seen it.
Captcha’s don’t work. People are paid (tiny amounts) to break them.
Short version yes it has been tried(Along with a variety of other techniques), it failed fairly effectively on a decent scale. Moved on.
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I am considering leaving the last comment only because it is funny when they do our work for us:)
SeabladeBlood sweat and tears, just to be drug through the mud.
Creating such a beautiful project as Ardour shall go down in history as one of the wonderful things humans can accomplish,
The problem with reporting these, is that this spamming can be done as a tactic to defame a competitor. Therefore the appears the competitor is web spamming. If it were as simple as banning all domain names used in spamming, everyone would have done that long ago.
This thread is 14 years old.
I am locking it now.