Conquer Club

• CC should place a captcha on the home page sifnup form

• uh, get a good captcha, like re-captcha, and make it a requirement of the signup

• It will reduce the number of spam bots that signup and post spam in the forums
• it will reduce the number of other nefarious bots that just signup on every form on the net, taking up usernames, as well as server resources.

mibi wrote:Concise description:

• CC should place a captcha on the home page sifnup form

Specifics:

• uh, get a good captcha, like re-captcha, and make it a requirement of the signup

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• It will reduce the number of spam bots that signup and post spam in the forums
• it will reduce the number of other nefarious bots that just signup on every form on the net, taking up usernames, as well as server resources.

Woodruff wrote:What's a captcha...is that the "numbers that have to be manually entered to match what's on the screen" thing? If so, they use that for e-tickets already, so it should be easy to implement.

e_i_pi wrote:The whole annoyance-bot thing is a double-whammy at the moment. Not only are captcha-recognising bots better, but there's also a rash of real 'users' from China who are creating accounts for heavens knows what purpose on phpBB3 forums. I'm having to delete a fake user about once a week on my forums, and my site barely rates on the register

Woodruff wrote:

e_i_pi wrote:The whole annoyance-bot thing is a double-whammy at the moment. Not only are captcha-recognising bots better, but there's also a rash of real 'users' from China who are creating accounts for heavens knows what purpose on phpBB3 forums. I'm having to delete a fake user about once a week on my forums, and my site barely rates on the register

Out of curiousity, how are you able to determine what is a "fake user" and what is a "legitimate user"?

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Woodruff wrote:

e_i_pi wrote:The whole annoyance-bot thing is a double-whammy at the moment. Not only are captcha-recognising bots better, but there's also a rash of real 'users' from China who are creating accounts for heavens knows what purpose on phpBB3 forums. I'm having to delete a fake user about once a week on my forums, and my site barely rates on the register

Out of curiousity, how are you able to determine what is a "fake user" and what is a "legitimate user"?

AndyDufresne wrote:Lack is currently doing some updating inregards spambots, so we'll see how well that works first.

lackattack wrote:As e_i_pi said, it seems most of these spam accounts are in fact humans - if they can click an activation email link they could definitely complete a captcha.

The good news is that I just finished coding our Anti-Spam Bot today. It should intercept any advertising spam and immediately website ban the user (permanently ).

Unfortunately I can't reveal the logic here for the spammers might see how to get around it!

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if (ip != lackattack) {
   accountStatus = banned;
}