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Forum Changes
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:22 pm
by sysadmin
I've disabled guest posting... henceforth, you MUST be registered and logged in to post. This it to prevent spam
Jonathan Simpson
Forum Administration
Re: Forum Changes
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:07 pm
by ibmsystems
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!
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:54 am
by peachey13
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:59 am
by Andrew
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:11 am
by ibmsystems
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
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:00 am
by sysadmin
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.
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:30 pm
by ibmsystems
/me booooooo's at dale!
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:36 pm
by peachey13
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
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:20 am
by Jonathan Simpson
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
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:32 am
by peachey13
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.
Re: Forums
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:25 am
by tris
Both the new system and the identification are a good idea, though I know have to be bother loggin in (which i never do!)
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:01 am
by Jonathan Simpson
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...
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:56 pm
by tris
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'?