New User Registrations Suspended Temporarily

[The Helper]

Due to an influx of spambots I have disabled new user registrations temporarily. If you are trying to register a new account you will have to try again tomorrow. I apologize for any inconvenience.

 

[UndeadDragon]

Are you going to implement another "anti-spam" feature in the registration? Just to try to stop Spambots more.

 

[AceHart]

They will have to answer simple questions, like what's the result of "sqrt(3 * PI)" to three decimals.
That should get rid of all weird registration attempts.

 

[UndeadDragon]

They will have to answer simple questions, like what's the result of "sqrt(3 * PI)" to three decimals.

Yes... Simple...

 

[Darthfett]

They will have to answer simple questions, like what's the result of "sqrt(3 * PI)" to three decimals.
That should get rid of all weird registration attempts.

Heh. It should get rid of some valid registration attempts as well.

I've been seeing a lot of weird spammy posts, so this is good.

 

[Flare]

Yes... Simple...

It's not that hard - it's somewhere around 3.07, or thereabouts(?)
(lack of calculator ftl )

 

[UndeadDragon]

It's not that hard - it's somewhere around 3.07, or thereabouts(?)
(lack of calculator ftl )

3.06998012

 

[Uberplayer]

> (lack of calculator ftl )
Lol yeah, sure. Keep dreaming.

 

[Pineapple]

I say we dont let people post untill they have 1 post.

 

[Knight7770]

I say we dont let people post untill they have 1 post.

Good luck

 

[The Helper]

We seem to be still getting some of this so I am keeping this suspended for a while.

 

[emjlr3]

spam bots with AI

 

[The Helper]

The spammers broke the vbulletin captcha so they are just doing a big blast. VBulletin is so much better than PHPBB in functionality but there captcha is still OK.

 

[Pineapple]

why not limit the ability to create links to people with say, 5 posts.

 

[duyen]

why not limit the ability to create links to people with say, 5 posts.

No, another forum tried this, it was a disaster.

 

[gameman]

Ban by i.p?

 

[The Helper]

Ban by i.p?

These spambots are more advanced than that. They all have different IPs.

 

[MeRcChRiS]

Don't we have CAPTCHA or something? You can always add another field to the registration saying like "What is 578+5?" or something .

 

[phyrex1an]

Don't we have CAPTCHA or something? You can always add another field to the registration saying like "What is 578+5?" or something .

I guess you haven't registered recently

 

[Ninva]

Are there spambots in the WC? We've had three threads asking about poetry exposure recently.