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Welcome Center => Beef => Topic started by: Luxray on June 10, 2010, 10:07:17 am

Title: GOD DAMN FORUM BOTS
Post by: Luxray on June 10, 2010, 10:07:17 am

NO WONDER THEY'RE GETTING IN!

(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4189/wtflz.jpg)

Gerbil, if you have the time, is it possible that you can make this registration page a little more bot-blocking? We've had quite a few spam bots register in the past week or so. Maybe you could have some word questions, like typing the sonic center backwards?

Title: Re: GOD DAMN FORUM BOTS
Post by: fastnaturedude on June 11, 2010, 06:46:26 am

You could do something like the SRB2 forum has...
"Sonic, Tails and [there|they're|their] friends like to go on adventures, [there|they're|their] always happy to help Sonic defeat [there|they're|their] nemesis, Doctor Eggman."
This keeps out spambots and morons.

Title: Re: GOD DAMN FORUM BOTS
Post by: bertin on June 11, 2010, 06:52:30 am

I forgot will it send email validations?

Title: Re: GOD DAMN FORUM BOTS
Post by: Rolken on June 11, 2010, 06:57:52 am

It helps if grammatically picky questions are themselves grammatically correct. That sentence needs a conjunction or a semicolon after 'adventures.' It's best not to apply the "moron" label too liberally.

Muphry's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law) strikes again.

Title: Re: GOD DAMN FORUM BOTS
Post by: Luxray on June 11, 2010, 08:36:45 am

^Technically there could also be a full stop after adventures, but that then would be very simplistic language skills :U