Spam bots still seem to be getting through even with the advanced CAPTCHA enabled, so I'm activating user email registration validation.

Validating members should use the "Validating Issues" subforum to address problems they have during validation.

Good idea, after 100th members bot... we don't want this kind of thinhs to happen again...

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...

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

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...

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

Heheh, at my friend's site, a bot posted a forum game, and we still play it to this day

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

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.

I had a huge problem with conformation on my AOL and Yahoo accounts, so I finally tried a hotmail accoutn and it worked =)

Hotmail seems to be the way to go, I use that normally, so I had no problems, good idea Duran.

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!

Yet your preference is RPG Maker VX?

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

I'd laugh if they did that