We need an extra mod or something who can delete those accounts
(05-12-2013, 03:29 AM)STR_Warrior Wrote: [ -> ]We need an extra mod or something who can delete those accounts
You're right, maybe you and me, we're active
Active? me ;O the forum only says that i'm 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 19 Hours, 31 Minutes, 32 Seconds online in total
It also says "posting freak"
We need an IP-ban, too
And a semi-automatic ban for people that start more than 4 threads within half an hour. You'd have to do something to prove your human interaction - solve a captcha, or a riddle, whatever.
Unfortunately Capcha's don't seem to stop spambots anymore nowadays.
It's ironic how google provides capcha's, but also tools to convert visual data into text.
I quite liked the idea of having to solve a riddle. For example, the page said "two plus three" and expected "5" as the input. That should still be effective enough.
Still a few spammers left, my phone is still beeping like crazy
You already need to solve riddles like those when registering, doesn't stop them xD
Thats because the riddles are too simple and something any bot can be programmed to understand. You need something that most PEOPLE will understand but a bot would have a hard time understanding this is more often then not simply done by making questions related to the content of your site. I run a forum for staff of a MLP convention, bots were a huge problem with stupip silly squiggly letters so it was my job to come up with a way to make them stop.
I decided to use questions, since its MLP i used the following.
Q:Which pony is the main character of the first and second episodes, "Mare in the Moon" and "Friendship is Magic"?
A:Twilight Sparkle
Q:In the episode "Lesson Zero", Twilight is almost late for a friendship report, and fears Princess Celestia will send her somewhere if she is tardy. Where does she think she will be sent to?
A:Magic Kindergarten
Q:True or False. Fluttershy lives in Cloudsdale, a city in the sky, with Rainbow Dash.
A:False
Q:In the episode "Boast Busters", what creature comes to Ponyville to wreak havoc because Snips and Snails awoke it?
A:Ursa Minor
Q:Who provides the voice of Twilight Sparkle?
A:Tara Strong
The server would select one of these at random during registration. They made perfect sense to actual people who understood the question and knew the content but to a random bot they made no sense and it was unable to reply. Happy to report there have been no bot accounts on the site for over a year. I would recommend you guys do something similar
So like none of the above i would be able to answer..
Sure hope no forum is ever going to use it
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