[ANTHONYD]

we've been over run!

[darkpuppet]

sorry... I updated the registration and testing out the spam filter... guess there's still some kinks.

Unfortunately, it's hard to manually approve people and catch everyone who's not spam. I hate missing legitimate new registrants.

[NefCanuck]

I wonder, can you set up a custom challenge / response type registration system with this forum software? :huh:

NefCanuck

[ZTWsquared]

darkpuppet,May 13 2009, 09:29 AM Wrote:sorry... I updated the registration and testing out the spam filter... guess there's still some kinks.

Unfortunately, it's hard to manually approve people and catch everyone who's not spam.  I hate missing legitimate new registrants.
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Is there any way to set up an invitation system that facilitates joining (bypasses some of the hurdles) ... I come across lots of guys who might be interested and sending them a link would make it easy.

[darkpuppet]

right now, I've opened up the registration once again... for the time being.

I've been working on a prototype anti-spam thing that any user of the board could mark as spam and lock out spam users, e-mails and IPs... with an admin override.

So basically, everyone who first registers gets a button that displays with their first 50 posts that lets you report them as spammers.

Once 2 hits are made, the account is restricted until a mod reviews the account -- if the mod confirms the spam, the user is deleted, the IP, e-mail and whatnot are banned and life goes on.

If a mod approves the post, the profile is flagged as good and the button goes away.

As things stand, I have a prototype board setup, and I've started the development of the feature... hopefully sometime in July I can roll it out.

Another anti-spamming technique is to put several generated images and quiz the user on their orientation and order -- two things bots aren't very good at... I'm hoping some board devs implement it, because that's more complicated than I have time for.