Trying out new anti-spambot thing

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Trying out new anti-spambot thing

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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.
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See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
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Re: Trying out new anti-spambot thing

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Ah, this is better than admin approval.

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Re: Trying out new anti-spambot thing

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Dominic wrote:Ah, this is better than admin approval.

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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.
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See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
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