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user having trouble registering

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:20 pm
by dart
hi there,

a DOA user says he is having trouble registering, can someone contact him?

his details are in this thread:

http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.ph ... 19&cache=0


cheers.

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:17 pm
by nic
yeah its to keep new people out, i tried registering about 6 new users with legitimate user names and emails but got nothing.

but yer it is pretty fucken crap, forum is locked up tighter than a fishes ass

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:28 pm
by fooishbar
it shouldn't be; there's no deliberate policy to keep new people out, full stop. i think people with hotmail addresses tend to have problems, but aside from that, it should be okay. we'll get on to him and try to sort it. thanks.

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:39 am
by system
nic wrote:yeah its to keep new people out
completely and utterly untrue. the admin approval is used to stop the huge amount of spam bots registering bogus accounts.

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:33 pm
by flippo
fascists

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:52 am
by khem
system wrote:
nic wrote:yeah its to keep new people out
completely and utterly untrue. the admin approval is used to stop the huge amount of spam bots registering bogus accounts.

i was running phpBB for a while and there is a heaps easier way to reduce the number of spamburgers that doesnt involve having to approve every member that signs up. pm/email me i if you are still having issues or whatever...

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:31 am
by system
we're aware of the anti-spam mods for phpbb2. :)

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:43 am
by khem
its not a mod you can download afaik. having a quick look at your registration page, you arent using this one i have in mind.

most bots know what the standard phpBB registration page looks like, and their scripts usually fly through these no problems.

what we did was add a non standard question to the registration page. bots can guess the answer to a non standard question, so if you add a question that has a yes/no answer then the bots will probably come thru half the time as they will either select yes or no.

we added a question like what is 6 + 2

bots cant do maths. after making this modification we had almost no new bot sign ups.

try it if you want and see how it goes. or dont. just thought id let you know what worked for us after trying so many mods that did sweet fuck all.

:)

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:58 am
by system
thanks. there's a few variants on that theme.

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:10 am
by razyier
ahaha, took me a while to get here (nearly 6 months, lol) but i finally got through! (big cheers system :D) - but yeah, fucking bots +_+

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:10 am
by system
:thumbup: welcome!