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| Email Validation, Bot Protection |
 Dec 24 2007, 04:07 PM
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 Management / News  Posts: 106 Type: Designer  |
Spam bots still seem to be getting through even with the advanced CAPTCHA enabled, so I'm activating user email registration validation.
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Dec 25 2007, 12:00 PM
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 Sejourner Posts: 2,446 Primarily Speaks: Creole Type: Undisclosed Alignment: Undecided |
Good idea, after 100th members bot... we don't want this kind of thinhs to happen again...
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Dec 27 2007, 03:08 PM
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 βeta House  Posts: 26 Type: Coder |
Don't know if this already exists, but you can add the "are you a bot?" question and leave it marked as "Yes" by default, so ordinary bots can't change to "No" and get registered
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Dec 27 2007, 03:33 PM
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Sejourner Posts: 2,446 Primarily Speaks: Creole Type: Undisclosed Alignment: Undecided |
QUOTE (Flaepru @ Dec 27 2007, 03:00 PM)  Don't know if this already exists, but you can add the "are you a bot?" question and leave it marked as "Yes" by default, so ordinary bots can't change to "No" and get registered Man, if the bot are already programmed to write capcha then it's no big deal to make then select no... -------------------- |
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Dec 30 2007, 10:59 PM
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 Keeping the dream alive! Posts: 865 |
So there was a spambot invasion...hmmm...anyone say how bad?
And BTW, it couldn't have been bad as the one I had...we had around 5 to 10 spambots everyday, before we had a revolution, moved, and had the Textual Confirmation MOD installed  -Tay -------------------- [spoiler]We seriously now have spoiler tags![/spoiler]   |
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Dec 31 2007, 08:36 AM
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Sejourner Posts: 2,446 Primarily Speaks: Creole Type: Undisclosed Alignment: Undecided |
Well, i have not seen any spambot around but who knows; maybe they were here and i did not notice but the worst i see is some guy(/bot?) drop and advertise porn website...
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Dec 31 2007, 08:41 AM
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Keeping the dream alive! Posts: 865 |
Yea, we had that problem once...expect, it was posting pics, and the links to them...from then on, I removed all topics from the Mod control centre, rather than directly...
-Tay -------------------- [spoiler]We seriously now have spoiler tags![/spoiler] |
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Dec 31 2007, 10:24 PM
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 Posts: 116 Type: Coder |
Heheh, at my friend's site, a bot posted a forum game, and we still play it to this day
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Dec 31 2007, 10:52 PM
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Keeping the dream alive! Posts: 865 |
Once, we had a spambot that looked like a real person...he didn't post any links, he just said Hi, and said a few good things about the community and such.
And that is the only good spambot I've seen to this day -Tay -------------------- [spoiler]We seriously now have spoiler tags![/spoiler] |
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Jan 1 2008, 06:53 AM
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Sejourner Posts: 2,446 Primarily Speaks: Creole Type: Undisclosed Alignment: Undecided |
On gamefaq's, i remember there was a bot where each time you post something it just take the content from the last post and make a new post with google link related to the last post... it was only doing this on the Baldur's Gate board.
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Jan 21 2008, 01:34 PM
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Posts: 94 Type: Undisclosed |
I had a huge problem with conformation on my AOL and Yahoo accounts, so I finally tried a hotmail accoutn and it worked =)
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Jan 30 2008, 05:47 AM
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 Posts: 42 Type: Writer |
Hotmail seems to be the way to go, I use that normally, so I had no problems, good idea Duran.
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Jan 30 2008, 06:02 AM
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Keeping the dream alive! Posts: 865 |
Hotmail...the only global free email service that doens't allow emails to use POP3 without paying...nah, I'll pass...the new version is abit slow anyway!
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Jan 30 2008, 07:48 AM
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Posts: 42 Type: Writer |
Yet your preference is RPG Maker VX?
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Jan 30 2008, 07:08 PM
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Keeping the dream alive! Posts: 865 |
What on earth is your point?
 Yea, I'll pay a one-off fee for a software program...but I'm using some free, and sometimes annoying, email service, when I can use my own domain email, with no problems at all
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Jan 30 2008, 07:14 PM
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 The forum Technician Posts: 623 Type: Artist |
QUOTE (Flaepru @ Dec 27 2007, 12:00 PM) Don't know if this already exists, but you can add the "are you a bot?" question and leave it marked as "Yes" by default, so ordinary bots can't change to "No" and get registered I'd laugh if they did that
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