Blocking of fake accounts

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by Boomer » 7/1/2011

Is it possible for say to be able to block those fake accounts that people have likely seen on the forums that just advertise products for some other website?
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by Zaralith » 7/1/2011

This is currently being worked on. Thanks for the suggestions.
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by Boomer » 7/6/2011

This Idea brought up by Zeranny and I also believe CreeperCarole, is the use of capatchas on the site. Zeranny thought of why not for each post, while Carole thought of why not for lower level accounts/at account creation.

I say do a mixture of both of their ideas. Account creation could have a capatcha for account creation and posting in the forums (for lower level accounts... so maybe only level 1) seeing as thourough spammers may manual make the account before just autoing the spam so having level 1's need capatchas solves that problem by that the accounts made for ad spamming usually from what I have seen never get or try to get past level 1.
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by Smink » 7/6/2011

hmm whats capatchas? are they the "what does this word say" (blah blah) in italic ??

if it is them yeh it seems pretty cool :)
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by Cyprezz » 7/6/2011

I'm updating the registration form today to use captcha and additional anti-bot checks. If it continues then we may have to approve the initial posts by newly registered members.
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by Boomer » 7/6/2011

Cyprezz wrote:I'm updating the registration form today to use captcha and additional anti-bot checks. If it continues then we may have to approve the initial posts by newly registered members.


High five at a chance to get rid of the advertisement spammers.
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by coconut219 » 7/6/2011

yay now we can we can read letters drawn be drunk pepole all the time for ever.
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by Zaralith » 7/14/2011

Upgrade complete. Moving to completed stuff.
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