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by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:16 pm

OK, cool, that sounds perfect. I'll give it a shot.

by hygraed » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:40 pm

According to the website the CAPTCHA shows up on the user registration page. Thus, it could prevent bot registrations while not bothering Lysander.

WIN-WIN.

Re: A Message for Robb

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:31 pm

hygraed wrote:Spam has been a real problem lately, culminating with one person posting four of the exact same threads. This can be remedied with one of those Captchas we all keep bitching about.
Is this a captcha for registered users to input? There is a good and working one for guest posters, but phpbb does not do a good job implementing a captcha for user registrations (as you can see by the hundreds that get in a month). I'm not sure there is any way to fix the issue through registration with phpbb. You can hide them, but they still appear.

by unreg test » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:36 pm

AArdvark not logged in testing this machine, works gooder



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by Worm » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:18 am

Isn't it going to be a catchpa for registering and guest posting anyway?

by hygraed » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:18 pm

Oh shit. Sorry, Lysander, I forgot. :(

now I feel like a dick

edit: Actually, reCAPTCHA's website says this:

"Most other implementations of CAPTCHAs block visually impaired individuals, who cannot read images of distorted text. reCAPTCHA, on the other hand, has an audio test that allows blind people to freely navigate your site."

Maybe?

by Lysander » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:48 pm

Captcha and I WALK MOTHERFUCKER ::ANGRY::

A Message for Robb

by hygraed » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:10 pm

Spam has been a real problem lately, culminating with one person posting four of the exact same threads. This can be remedied with one of those Captchas we all keep bitching about.

One Captcha provider is called reCaptcha. reCaptcha uses the input from users to digitize books: any words that the computers at archival places can't detect are used as Captchas.

It's also free, and they even provide a handy plugin for phpBB:

http://recaptcha.net/plugins/phpbb/

So, how about it, Robb? It looks like it only takes a few minutes to set up, and comes with the double benefits of no spam and more free e-books.

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