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Trying out new anti-spambot thing
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:16 am
by JediTricks
They have to enter a specific number in the profile system. I chose one important to TF.
I also added a pulldown question, hopefully that should stem the tide.
Apparently, the captcha this board software currently uses has been cracked by spambot authors.
Re: Trying out new anti-spambot thing
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 5:30 am
by Dominic
Ah, this is better than admin approval.
Dom
Re: Trying out new anti-spambot thing
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 10:55 am
by JediTricks
Dominic wrote:Ah, this is better than admin approval.
Dom
Yup, 100% different. Where I would have gotten a dozen submissions overnight, I have received zero. We are bot-free for now. I've set it back so new users can register themselves without admin approval.
If the bots break through this one, we could start using a moderation queue for new users, under X posts they have to be verified by the mods. The only thing I don't like about that is that it leaves them in our membership roster and they usually include their spam URL in their profile.