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Saint Borlaug
06-16-2009, 08:17 PM
This is kinda a "science/technology" question but I think "Business" readers would have more input:

My business idea: (in convenient to read bullet format)

Desire:
I want to

get a topical cream remedy for the raging anal parasites I got from thailand
suggest an episode idea for Penn and Teller's BS
see if anyone has experience growing marijuana plants with laser light
post my crack pot business idea


Problem -
Now, JU is a smart bunch, but my questions are too diverse and the community is too small. To get very meaningful feedback (from experts!) I'd have to join large communities of a medical, screenwriters, horticulturalist, and entrepreneur message boards.
That would require a login and password, which is excessive overhead for posting one idea and a handful of replies.

THE SOLUTION -

People browse to my website.
They choose which forum (organized by primary subject) they want to post to or thread to reply to.
They submit their post, anonymously, to me. My bots post to the forum using a legitimate log-in. Voila, you've posted without a log-in.


The only problem I see is handling spam/bots/trolls, and maybe an irrate moderator who demands 1 login 1 person. However, I see it as beneficial to mods because it brings traffic to their site. After-all, the anonymous poster needs to read the replies.

What do you all think?

dk
06-16-2009, 08:22 PM
First impression......... while I can see many potential problems.... I like it.

I Am Luna
06-17-2009, 09:52 AM
haha, this would be like a wet dream for BlackHat SEOist like myself. Do write it :)

Sidenote, you will be going against a few giants out there too, Yahoo Answers, the Q&A wikis, Answerbag, and the ever deadly, Ask.com.

Ayzil
06-17-2009, 10:36 AM
anal parasites?

That settles it, I'm not sitting on any toilet without seven layers of TP coving it while I'm in Thailand.

Saint Borlaug
06-28-2009, 03:38 PM
Ayzil - you might want to do the same for all the public toilets I used here

On further thought - it would be better to create a script that simultaneously creates accounts (same username/password) for all the forums that a user wishes to use. They would have to solve the captchas, but at least they could do it in one go instead of navigating through each site.

All in all - not worth the programming effort. Might be good for schools.

I Am Luna
06-28-2009, 08:49 PM
...They would have to solve the captchas...
Actually, they wouldn't :) Scripts can solve even the hardest captchas.

dk
06-28-2009, 11:04 PM
Still not worth the hassle. I agree with him there.

nopar
06-29-2009, 06:26 AM
Is your goal to get them to your site and monitize the eyeballs? or to get them to post something? or the ability for you to post in all these places at once?

TheLastDon
06-29-2009, 11:21 AM
Actually, they wouldn't :) Scripts can solve even the hardest captchas.

So why do sites still use captchas? I am just curious; if they didn't have that would the sites be flooded with spammers?

I noticed now on facebook you have to get an SMS confirmation code on your phone to requests more friends. Not every time but they did it to me once already.

dk
06-29-2009, 11:35 AM
So why do sites still use captchas? I am just curious; if they didn't have that would the sites be flooded with spammers?

I noticed now on facebook you have to get an SMS confirmation code on your phone to requests more friends. Not every time but they did it to me once already.
Captchas catch most bots. Hell, I can barely get through most captchas...

I Am Luna
06-29-2009, 03:07 PM
So why do sites still use captchas? I am just curious; if they didn't have that would the sites be flooded with spammers?
Websites use captchas to keep testing and updating their captchas. Ever notice how they keep getting harder?

Many times, when a captcha is broken, the programmer goes to great lenghts to get his code paid for by spammers and big spamming corporations. The chinese are a little bit ahead of the game in this department.

Also, just because a website doesn't seem to be flooded with spam, doesn't mean it isn't. Making a page, comment, link or profile look legit is the best way to gain trust and SEO/spammers know this.

But on the bright side, scripts to break captchas is so old. These days, I can outsource my captcha breaking to real humans. (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1835) & (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-04-22-captcha-code-breakers_N.htm)

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dk
06-29-2009, 04:02 PM
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Captcha_WTF

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