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captcha
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:43 pm
by MrPotatoes
time to put in captcha to help stop the bots don't you think?
Re: captcha
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:44 pm
by Zoxive
MrPotatoes wrote:time to put in captcha to help stop the bots don't you think?
As far as im told we have one.. i commented on that the other day..
feyd wrote:Zoxive wrote:We need a captcha, ive seen so much spam recently!
We have captcha. It doesn't help in the newer breeds of bots.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:00 am
by JayBird
Captcha isn't the be all and end all.
phpBB's captcha isn't actually that good and was was been successfully broken a while ago. Moreover, it is unbearably easy to break.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:00 am
by CoderGoblin
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
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:20 am
by MrPotatoes
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:48 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Trust me, the spam is a pain in the arse for us all. We are looking at several mechanisms to thwart spam at the moment as we totally aware of the situation. Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:40 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:20 pm
by Zoxive
This is a php community after all, why can't we just make a mod for phpbb?
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:36 pm
by John Cartwright
MrPotatoes 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.
There are usually many more than that

, but thanks to our wonderful (:)) mod team, we typically catch them very quickly.
This is a php community after all, why can't we just make a mod for phpbb?
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 stone

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:00 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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
