Forum Changes

Post by **sysadmin** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:22 pm

I've disabled guest posting... henceforth, you MUST be registered and logged in to post. This it to prevent spam

Jonathan Simpson
Forum Administration

ibmsystems · Post by **ibmsystems** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:07 pm

sysadmin wrote:I've disabled guest posting... henceforth, you MUST be registered and logged in to post. This it to prevent spam

Jonathan Simpson
Forum Administration

WooHoo! Good Idea!

peachey13 · Post by **peachey13** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:54 am

how about we have a guest/newbie section where poeple can post and reply while unregistered but you have to registered in all the other sections.

Post by **Andrew** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:59 am

I think it's best to just keep the login requirement across the board - otherwise we will still be plagued with this spam in the unregistered-accessible board.

ibmsystems · Post by **ibmsystems** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:11 am

Andrew Bunn wrote:I think it's best to just keep the login requirement across the board - otherwise we will still be plagued with this spam in the unregistered-accessible board.

I agree with andrew

Post by **sysadmin** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:00 am

Dale seems to think we should re-allow guest access, I'm waiting to hear why

So we may end up putting it back or doing... something.

ibmsystems · Post by **ibmsystems** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:30 pm

/me booooooo's at dale!

peachey13 · Post by **peachey13** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:36 pm

sysadmin wrote:Dale seems to think we should re-allow guest access, I'm waiting to hear why

So we may end up putting it back or doing... something.

If we do my way we got best of both worlds

Jonathan Simpson · Post by **Jonathan Simpson** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:20 am

Peachey, except that forum would get spammed to death...

The spam bots search automatically for open forums.

I'm looking at a way around this

peachey13 · Post by **peachey13** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:32 am

maybe some sort of CAPTCHA system, on DLWPD's blog to post a comment you have to ansewer a simple mathamatical question eg: 10+2.

tris · Post by **tris** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:25 am

Both the new system and the identification are a good idea, though I know have to be bother loggin in (which i never do!)

Jonathan Simpson · Post by **Jonathan Simpson** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:01 am

I found a way to maybe re-allow guest access, it would require you to select from a drop down list to verify you are a person

Most of the spam bots today choke on this, but should be easy enough for a genuine human being...

I'll see when I can implement this, next week is brutal...

tris · Post by **tris** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:56 pm

Some of those are quite funny, would it be like 'The United States is a:
a) Country
b) City
c) Person
d) Kind of food'?

DHES

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