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Hey Jacek,

Could you please consider adding a captcha system on the registration of this forum, or for posts by new members ? Cuz it's kind of a pity to see new spam messages every single day I can't wait for XHBB, but until then, please consider adding some more defense. This is ruinning the quality of this forum IMO :/

Best regards,
CK

I second that.

I know ! there is nothing I can do though.

There is a captcha required for registration, these spammers are either real people, or very clever bots.

jacek wrote:I know ! there is nothing I can do though.

There is a captcha required for registration, these spammers are either real people, or very clever bots.

Oh, damn Damn phpBB. I can't believe this system is so much used around the internet... this is just unbelievable. Anyways, we won't leave you even with the spam Don't stop working on XHBB though

Perhaps some more people should be moderators temporarily.

anyone interested in doing that ?

XHBB is getting close to being usable. There are now some basic moderator features, so hopefully we can move to that soon and everythign will be better. Except all of the broken things, they will be a lot worse !

jacek wrote:Perhaps some more people should be moderators temporarily.

anyone interested in doing that ?

I could give it a shot. I'm sort of busy for the rest of this week, but by Friday I should be having enough free time to be here more actively again

Actually, I'm on vacation right now so I'm here pretty much always. If you need a mod, I'd be available Your call.

I think I will add a new group "Spam Removal" and add a few people to that.

Also phpBB needs updating

This will all have to wait until tomorrow though as it's 01:40 now and I'm very tired !

jacek wrote:Perhaps some more people should be moderators temporarily.

anyone interested in doing that ?

I'm down with that. Sign me up!

And what's the captcha for sign up? I forget…
reCAPTCHA is the way to go, IMHO. Just take a look at my guestbook database and see why!

jacek wrote:anyone interested in doing that ?

I have no life so Yes.
It's 03:50AM here which shows my dedication to this forum (by staying up all night reading spam posts)

jacek wrote:anyone interested in doing that ?

I am :]

JelvinJS7 wrote:And what's the captcha for sign up? I forget…
reCAPTCHA is the way to go, IMHO. Just take a look at my guestbook database and see why!

It is reCaptcha As far as I know that is the best one to use too, apparently it's not unbreakable though.

I may see if I can add a stopforumspam check to the registration, that should help with the most obvious spam.

Yeah there are tons of bots who can crack captcha's. Best choice is making a custom one (they would have to update their scripts, which is not worth it for one forum). Or using hidden forms: http://robmalon.com/hidden-form-fields- ... -bot-spam/

Last one worked great for me

Linkjuice57 wrote:Yeah there are tons of bots who can crack captcha's. Best choice is making a custom one (they would have to update their scripts, which is not worth it for one forum). Or using hidden forms: http://robmalon.com/hidden-form-fields- ... -bot-spam/

Last one worked great for me

That makes sense, if the spam bots are designed for phpbb and I change the registration form in some way, they will stop working. Even renaming the input fields should do it.

The problem is, I didn't write phpbb, so even the smallest change takes about 4 hours !

add me up to that list, I come here almost daily.

Okay, I am about to delete that list of usernames. If you are on it you will have to register again.

A spam just got posted by a bot that registered on the 11th.