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We may be forced... - Dark Jaguar - 11th June 2008
I fear we very likely have reached the point of russian attacks wherein we need to impose one of those "e-mail security checks" for new users... Anyone agree?
We may be forced... - A Black Falcon - 11th June 2008
Yeah, might be a good idea... this is getting annoying.
We may be forced... - alien space marine - 11th June 2008
Better dead then red
We may be forced... - Great Rumbler - 11th June 2008
Yeah, we need some kind of checks in place to make sure that real people are registering.
We may be forced... - Dark Jaguar - 11th June 2008
It is done. What concerns me is there is another option requiring a user to fill out a series of numbers in a randomly generated image file, and it was already set to "yes". I wonder if it's working? I'll test that now.
We may be forced... - Dark Jaguar - 11th June 2008
Well I tested it and image verification is in fact already working. What concerns me is the e-mail verification is NOT working. It seems we don't have the proper server code in place to send an e-mail to an address.
My concern is that with the image verification, there's no real way short of a sophisticated image recognition program for them to actually use a bot to continue registering. I'm pretty sure we actually ARE dealing with human beings taking the time out of their day to register and then spam us. As such, an e-mail verification, aside from appearing not to work (I'll revert it in a moment), wouldn't hold them out.
Instead here's my suggestion. We confirm each individual user. It's a little extreme, but it's not like a lot of new members are storming us every day. After a month, we can shut it off and see if they leave us alone or something. I dunno...
We may be forced... - DMiller - 11th June 2008
I had this problem with the forums I run for my classroom, and I ended up having to put a security question in that asked the new user what my classroom number was. It totally eliminated the problem so maybe if we have email verification it will stop the problem.
We may be forced... - Great Rumbler - 11th June 2008
We may be forced... - Fittisize - 11th June 2008
I thought it was the cow.
We may be forced... - Dark Jaguar - 11th June 2008
THIS is the mascot.
[cow]a[/cow]