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lundi 29 décembre 2014

right but our FAQ could not hurt to be updated. maybe if someone reads the FAQ and misses that they will learn it that way.



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Both 2.0 and 2.1 indicate this already.



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If you want users to answer verification questions in order to stop spam bots you should setup a number of questions in the table below. You should pick relatively simple questions; answers are not...








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OK cool thanks that makes me feel better, just was not certain how it would work... had to be sure. but in any case it's Nice !



regards,

Maxx



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however they want but will accept it in either case.






ah, we might need to update our FAQ to make sure admin know the answers are not case sensitive.



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Internally the system is case insensitive, so the question will have 'abcDEF' and expect 'def' as an answer while 'def' and 'DEF' will both be accepted. To facilitate this the answer is saved in lower case.



2.1 handles this better by having an even sma...



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as far as i know none of the answers should not save in upper case, or at least the answers will be accepted if they are in upper or lower case.



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For Version. SMF 2.0.9

Please Note, I like these Q and A's for the registration , however the answer to last one will not save in uppercase, so best change lower...








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For Version. SMF 2.0.9

Please Note, I like these Q and A's for the registration , however the answer to last one will not save in uppercase, so best change lower case letters in the string. or you'll get no registrations, if used!





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dimanche 28 décembre 2014

use the post-count based membergroups and set the first group from 0 to 10 posts... and require posts from those users to be validated



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Also while a minor drag on your mod staff but setup a starter post count group with whatever limit you think (1 normally sorts out the dodgy human bots) and moderate thei...








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vendredi 26 décembre 2014




A few good verification questions. No spambot registrations whatsoever succeeding here for years...












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A few good verification questions. No spambot registrations whatsoever succeeding here for years, millions of attempts.



The system in use here, see http://ift.tt/1yM9z5w...








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It appears after some testing that questions should be of reasonable difficulty to stop bots answering. Its likely because of the questions theres a database of answers being built that can eventually circumnavigate the questions set.



I purposely set t...



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A few good verification questions. No spambot registrations whatsoever succeeding here for years, millions of attempts.



The system in use here, see http://ift.tt/1ARici8

Bots killed immedi...



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