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Can we temporarily stop registrations?

Micawber

Well-Known Member
According to Nathan, we already have a Captcha system in place (yeah - I totally forgot about that too), but he’s going to dial up the difficulty on it. a few will still undoubtedly get through, but that should help.

Sadly it does not appear to be helping Jan as I have just reported yet another spam post. IIRC my second such report today.
 

mulceber

Moderator
Yeah, I've been zapping 'em as soon as I see them, but it doesn't seem to be having much effect. I wish there were some better way than Captcha to prove that a new member isn't a bot, but I don't know of one. :(
 

John Lever

Moderator
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Micawber

Well-Known Member
Captcha's aside as they are just one line of defence, it should also be possible to tweak the software settings via the Admin Control Panel but this does require a knowledge of the particular software or raising a ticket with the provider.

One way is to handle new registrations manually and checking each individually. But of course this is somewhat time consuming.
 

mulceber

Moderator
My still recommendation 1Euro..
AI already overruns all Captcha BS.
I raised the possibility with Nathan. He said it just isn't feasible with our forum. He didn't say why, but IMHO, we don't have the cyber infrastructure in place to ask for payment.

If it provides any comfort, he said TFL is going through the exact same thing, as are most other forums on the web. We just have to keep hammering them.
 
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