#105393 - SimonB - Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:20 pm
I have removed the Visual Confirmation Registration from the forum and replaced it with a question/answer type of thing instead. Hopefully this will keep all the spambots out and give the visually impaired and others that might have experienced problems before an easier time registering.
I have also deleted ~850 members whos accounts were both inactive and had no posts to their name.
#105396 - Optihut - Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:23 pm
Good work!
While I can tolerate real people that spam (I usually get a few of those "Hey Bill Gates is giving out money when you forward this e-mail!" chainletters by e-tard friends of mine), I completely loathe spambots and the guys who programmed those. Thanks to the amount of spam I am prone to delete important mails by accident and sorting through all that junk (I don't trust the filters...) is time consuming. So yeah, thumbs up for getting rid of spambots.
#105408 - keldon - Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:42 pm
I've always thought that a question type system would always have been best. Especially if you simply ask to click on the third red dot or something, or click here 3 times.
It's such a shame that lycos (or whoever it was) had to drop their anti spam screensaver.
#105427 - poslundc - Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:31 pm
Were the bots breaking through CAPTCHA?
Dan.
#105428 - sgeos - Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:31 pm
| keldon wrote: |
| I've always thought that a question type system would always have been best. Especially if you simply ask to click on the third red dot or something, or click here 3 times. |
This helps visually impared visitor how? How many visually impared visitors does this forum get? The blind people I know are disinterested in the GBA/DS for obvious reasons.
Will questions make things difficult for foreign visitors?
-Brendan
#105430 - keldon - Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:40 pm
Good point. Although this is an English speaking forum, so if they can't answer simple questions then they are unlikely to benefit, or want to benefit from this forum.
Although having said that, it is much easier to ask a question than to answer one.
#105433 - sgeos - Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:54 pm
| keldon wrote: |
| Good point. Although this is an English speaking forum, so if they can't answer simple questions then they are unlikely to benefit, or want to benefit from this forum. |
I had not thought of that. Are the questions simple?
| keldon wrote: |
| Although having said that, it is much easier to ask a question than to answer one. |
Depends, but I don't feel like arguing this one.
-Brendan
#105436 - dantheman - Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:11 pm
I think the main problem with the CAPTCHA system is that it doesn't work in text-only browsers. As the only working homebrew DS web browser is text-only, it's ironic that a user can't register for the DS Dev forums using the DS homebrew browser.
#105448 - SimonB - Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:15 pm
| poslundc wrote: |
| Were the bots breaking through CAPTCHA? |
Yes, they have been doing so more and more frequently over the last few months. At most I think 5-6 of them have registered on a single day. Most of them dont post any spam but they do set their website to link to odd webshops etc.
#105481 - tepples - Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:48 pm
| poslundc wrote: |
| Were the bots breaking through CAPTCHA? |
It doesn't take OCR for a bot to break CAPTCHA. It's rawther common nowadays for sites to get CAPTCHAs from forums and use offers of porn to get horny men to solve them for free. Consider it the equivalent of PassMe for spam ;-)
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#105490 - poslundc - Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:18 pm
I knew about this phenomenon, but not how commonly in use it was. It stinks that they've been so successful with it.
Better mousetrap, better mice, I suppose...
Dan.
#105508 - keldon - Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:25 am
I always thought that such a method could be used, even just having some crack one of these per may be enough.