Re: Spammers and spamming...

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.



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Both 2.0 and 2.1 indicate this already.



2.0:

Quote

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...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Quote from: Arantor on Today at 11:32:47 AM

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.



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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...



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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.



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Quote from: stmaxx on Today at 10:06:07 AM

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...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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!





ED...



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Quote from: beanflying on December 26, 2014, 03:59:17 AM

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...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Quote from: vbgamer45 on Today at 12:55:11 PM

Quote from: a10 on Today at 08:01:24 AM

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

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Quote from: a10 on Today at 08:01:24 AM

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...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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...



Re: Spammers and spamming...

Re: Spammers and spamming...

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...



Re: Spammers and spamming...