We may be forced...

[Dark Jaguar]

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?

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, might be a good idea... this is getting annoying.

[alien space marine]

Better dead then red

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, we need some kind of checks in place to make sure that real people are registering.

[Dark Jaguar]

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.

[Dark Jaguar]

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...

[DMiller]

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.

[Great Rumbler]

[Fittisize]

I thought it was the cow.

[Dark Jaguar]

THIS is the mascot.
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