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- MrPotatoes
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time to put in captcha to help stop the bots don't you think?
Re: captcha
As far as im told we have one.. i commented on that the other day..MrPotatoes wrote:time to put in captcha to help stop the bots don't you think?
feyd wrote:We have captcha. It doesn't help in the newer breeds of bots.Zoxive wrote:We need a captcha, ive seen so much spam recently!
- CoderGoblin
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Capchas are not the be all and all solution. It is fairly easy to crack simple ones with simple colour filters and character recognition. The latest captchas (formulae and image combinations are more difficult to crack) but suffer the problem of being hard to read by a normal user.
For more information on this subject see the wikipedia for capcha
For more information on this subject see the wikipedia for capcha
- MrPotatoes
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don't get your panties in a bunch. i was saying that it's time to do something about spam/bot security because every day there are at least two.
i'm annoyed with it but i bet the admins/mods are moreso.
bringing it to the attention of people here so mayhaps something can be done. put in your ideas here.
i'm annoyed with it but i bet the admins/mods are moreso.
bringing it to the attention of people here so mayhaps something can be done. put in your ideas here.
- RobertGonzalez
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- Chris Corbyn
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We're awaiting the release of a smart looking tool for phpbb which should help a lot with this
It's been discussed over the past couple of months among the mods so we will do something about it. Thanks for suggestions, if anybody does know of any tested solutions we'd be more than happy to venture a look into them 
- John Cartwright
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There are usually many more than thatMrPotatoes wrote:don't get your panties in a bunch. i was saying that it's time to do something about spam/bot security because every day there are at least two.
We try to keep up with the most recent versions of phpbb, so we like to only use that have support and can easily be ported. We are all very busy people, so we generally shy away from this idea. Although, nothing is written in stoneThis is a php community after all, why can't we just make a mod for phpbb?
- Chris Corbyn
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The thread currently at the top of list in the moderator boards is "spammers" and has been floating around for the past month or more 
http://unavailable.bbprotection.net/
Not sure on the status right now but it has been discussed.
Today the list of bannings for spammers has hit 7 and I'm sure that will rise by the end of the day
We're just so quick at dealing with junk it looks like two a day
http://unavailable.bbprotection.net/
Not sure on the status right now but it has been discussed.
Today the list of bannings for spammers has hit 7 and I'm sure that will rise by the end of the day
We're just so quick at dealing with junk it looks like two a day