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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:50 am
by Cankles
yay i made the cut!!!!

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:41 pm
by charlie
Can you not implement a captcha of some sort?

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:38 pm
by andysapp
it is implemented... the retarded thing is, most bots can get around them.

my tactics didn't work well... there were like 8 or 9 new bot regs today.

wheeeeee.

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:05 pm
by charlie
:? sux

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:07 pm
by POOPscandal
do we have that hoobeejooby where you have to type in some text shit from a hard to read box thing before you register?

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:31 pm
by andysapp
yeah but it ain't even that hard to read. from the small research i've done... it looks like bots can completely bypass the registration page - like... they don't even really visit it. it just submits the information.

i already made the mod to the reg page that deletes the URL section of the form... so if the URL gets transmitted, the forum automatically bans that user. only now, i think bot pushers realized this, and just don't put a URL in.

spam is positively one of the DUMBEST things in the entire world. it seems like the biggest waste of time from sending it out, to deleting it. the sad thing is, it must work... otherwise people wouldn't do it, i guess.

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:44 pm
by POOPscandal
i've learned from working at s3 that the world runs on advertising... even the shitty annoying kind.

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:45 pm
by andysapp
hahaha.

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:36 am
by The Yousef
pssst.

make me a mod so i can ban all those spammers...





























and stlcankles.

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:56 am
by POOPscandal
The Yousef wrote:pssst.

make me a mod so i can ban all those spammers...
just to burst your bubble. you won't get to ban people, only fun thing is ability to edit people's posts in the forum you mod. oh, and the secret handshake.

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:40 pm
by charlie
Hey Randy, just for future reference, that hoobeejooby is called a captcha.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:35 am
by The Yousef
driftPANDAspl wrote:
The Yousef wrote:pssst.

make me a mod so i can ban all those spammers...
just to burst your bubble. you won't get to ban people, only fun thing is ability to edit people's posts in the forum you mod. oh, and the secret handshake.
~stewie voice~

BLAST!

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:24 am
by Cankles
The Yousef wrote:
driftPANDAspl wrote:
The Yousef wrote:pssst.

make me a mod so i can ban all those spammers...
just to burst your bubble. you won't get to ban people, only fun thing is ability to edit people's posts in the forum you mod. oh, and the secret handshake.
~stewie voice~

BLAST!
you know want to ban me, you want hot pocket

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:07 am
by andysapp
Re-pruned bot members again.

I added a new field to the registration page - you have to answer an extremely easy question to register. Hopefully this'll help.

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:18 am
by andysapp
Oooh... I just did another mod that keeps unregistered users from viewing the memberlist and user profiles... no more bots spidering for our e-mail addresses!
:D