Lazarus
Miscellaneous => Suggestions => Topic started by: zex2011 on September 15, 2011, 07:23:56 pm
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Doesn't anybody find it ridiculous that when making a post on this forum, one has to type
6 random letters, then "Lazarus spelled backwards" and finally "1+2= in text"?
Especially because the second two things never change!! >:(
I've been on numerous forums but never saw something as stupid as this.
Is that your method of discouraging people from posting questions?
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Get your post count up a little, and you won't have to worry about it. :D
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What's the posting limit to that? There was no random letter confirmation when i started :)
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What's the posting limit to that? There was no random letter confirmation when i started :)
Not sure but I think it's 5. IIRC it was introduced earlier this year when there were a lot of problems with drive-by spammers / bots...
Gr.
Dirk.
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It is almost certainly to block spam bots. IMHO, it beats having all posts from new members approved by a moderator, which is done on some forums.
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Been on many forums, never saw such a brainless system.
If you must have an image with 6 letters for EVERY post, no problems. But don't ask TWO ADDITIONAL stupid questions like "Lazarus backwards" and "1+2". That just wastes our time, irritates everyone and doesn't add any protection against bots (since answers are always the same).
This is not anti-bot system. It's the anti-human system.
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I remember the spammers, sending to the admins a lot of post with 'buy this product' 'special discount' and 'visit here it benefit your life' spam.
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Don't you think that other forums (with 100x more visitors than this one) are having the same problem? And how they solve it? By a SINGLE Captcha test. Usually only on login.
But this forum is special. It has a test for EVERY post you make. But that's not all. It actually has THREE separate checks for EVERY post. So, when I finish writing this message I will have to enter text in THREE verification boxes.
Then if I move to another topic and make a new post, I will again have to fill THREE separate verification boxes to make that post. And so on.
I guess the webmaster hates new users because it means more job for him. Webmaster, I have a suggestion for you: Remove the "Register" button and voila - you won't have any new users. Happy?
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Take it easy. It's not there for me, since I've been here for some time. It's probably there to avoid spammers who post a couple of greetings and then posts spam from there. Just post to help others, and fill in the information the few times where you'll have to :)
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A single captcha doesn't work. We had it once and it didn't really stop spammers
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A single captcha doesn't work. We had it once and it didn't really stop spammers
Hello Marc. Could you have a look at the antispam mods on SMF website:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;type=19
(the first one is the Askimet used in Wordpress, very efficient one, some others may be good to test too).
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For me is so good, later 5 post's never show it again xD
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A single captcha doesn't work. We had it once and it didn't really stop spammers
Hello Marc. Could you have a look at the antispam mods on SMF website:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;type=19
(the first one is the Askimet used in Wordpress, very efficient one, some others may be good to test too).
I see a few problems:
* it isn't free
* it only checks the body of the posted message (and not the signature or user url)