Comments on: Using Network Features On Sphinn

By: affordable web page design

affordable web page design — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:49:48 +0000

I’m new to Sphinn. Thanks for the share Nick.

It is very worthy and makes me to love sphinn more…

lol

By: Sparky

Sparky — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:16 +0000

Nick,

I think that’s a great idea. There’re quite a few worthy entries on sphinn that went unnoticed. Hope you’ll find my submissions useful as well
http://sphinn.com/user/Sparky

By: Nick Wilsdon

Nick Wilsdon — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:22:09 +0000

@Tom

Yep but try to imagine how much spam Sphinn used to get each day – especially as a site for marketers. There’s a lot of blackhat and automation knowledge in that group. Add to them the MakeMoneyOnline and Indian link spammers and you see why Sphinn needs this many defences.

Saying that though, there isn’t a captcha on the login. That would have been overkill. The one you see there is for the password reminder form – as that gets hit by bots too. I’ll try and make that a little more obvious, thanks for the heads up.

By: Tom Coady

Tom Coady — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:30:28 +0000

Looks like there must be a hidden form field – got the email OK now, but also need profile avatar for networking. That’s not a problem, done, but auto-filling the rest also trips a bot detector which logs me out.

So it looks like it uses a combination of captchas, hidden fields, email verification and who knows what else to keep the bots out and to throw out the bots that get in which is cool if a bit overkill. The only thing that puts me off is having to solve a captcha each time I log in.

By: Tom Coady

Tom Coady — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:23:36 +0000

@Nick yes there may have been some confusion between mail address and username from the autofiller and checking my spam box it looks like the mail was never sent so I’ll restart the process, checking a bit more this time :)

By: Nick Wilsdon

Nick Wilsdon — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:30:37 +0000

@Tom

Yep you’d need to be logged in to get access to these features.

Not sure what happened with the password there, sounds like you tripped a filter but odd you didn’t get an error message.

Did you click the confirmation email that was sent? I know the system won’t let you log in until that part of the process has been completed?

By: Tom Coady

Tom Coady — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:24:58 +0000

I assume these features are visible when logged in so I registered and tried to log but it says I’m not registered. It’s possible I broke the system as 1password threw in the odd wrong form. Thinking about it now maybe I’m see as an invisible form filling bot?

By: Nick Wilsdon

Nick Wilsdon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:56:38 +0000

@Andrew

No problem, you’ve submitted a few good articles now. My only recommendation to you would be to submit more material from alternative sources, not joust your own blogs, to build more credibility into your account. Everyone pushes their own articles, that is expected but it’s sensible to mix that into other submissions.

I amended the last paragraph on this post after you wrote this – so I’ll add your profile link here.

By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:14:01 +0000

Thanks Nick – I’ve added a few of those to my list on your recommendation.

Oh, and thanks for following me (Mr603) and sphinning my articles!