Captcha for the support forum!

[Juani]

Mentlegen, while observing the growing amount of spammers in this Forum, I wondered why it did not have a captcha system on it. Its easy to set up and would really help moderators which have to waste their time removing topics about the latests software for uploading DVD files to your PC.

What say you?

[LH Justin]

Agreed, I don't really know why one hasn't been activated yet.

[MrMario]

I asked Typlo and he told me that it isn't possible to add this yet. It is a good suggestion to be able to have Captcha on all ways to register on a forum no matter if its on Admin, User or Emaill Activation.

[Caihlem]

At my time, the techies had denied such a request.
It was explained that bots are starting to be programmed to be able to read Captchas

ForuMotion already has an Anti-SpamBot plug-in installed though. When you register, you are asked to confirm your password on another page. This may seem a "simplistic" approach, but being (to my knowledge) the only ones doing this, not many bots are able to pass the barrier. Indeed some manage, but they are extremely inferior in number to those who were passing before.
Just before this was installed, the ForuMotion team was banning and deletig no less than at least 20 accounts per day

[dotDavid]

I'd say this would help a little bit. If we had 2 Captcha systems, it would definitely not be suitable for common spambot programs. Right now, placing this link onto Gaia will generate about 100 spam accounts within the coming day. So really, its something beyond our direct control, although we can still protect us a little bit more.

[LH Justin]

At my time, the techies had denied such a request.
It was explained that bots are starting to be programmed to be able to read Captchas

ForuMotion already has an Anti-SpamBot plug-in installed though. When you register, you are asked to confirm your password on another page. This may seem a "simplistic" approach, but being (to my knowledge) the only ones doing this, not many bots are able to pass the barrier. Indeed some manage, but they are extremely inferior in number to those who were passing before.
Just before this was installed, the ForuMotion team was banning and deletig no less than at least 20 accounts per day

Still, this forum appears to be being attacked by spam bots at the moment. A captcha might stop the bots in their tracks.

[Juani]

I have seen some forum´s having to take this measure to extremes, applying them to every single post or new thread.
Of Course, I am not suggesting this as a measure of this size is not currently necessary, however, a simple Captcha system while one registers would be most useful.

[Juani]

On another note, a random thought came to me. Its a wild idea, perhaps even stupid to some degree, but I thought I should share it.

As you may or may not have noticed, most of the spam bots use polls whenever they make a spam thread. Wouldn´t disabling poll options for members with less than 3 posts somewhat complicate their lives?

[BeBot]

I don't recall seeing an option to stop it like that. But I was reading if you remove a profile field at registation it will throw an error at the spambot.

[xReyMysterioOwnsx]

Is there even a way to remove captchas from our forum registrationss?

[MrMario]

xReyMysterioOwnsx at this time you can't we don't have it but in the user activation.

[Doctor Inferno]

There should be a spam filter which allows us to add key words to the filter where the posts would automatically be blocked.

So for example the words: DVD, how to, free and tutorial appear in the same post at once, it would automatically be blocked.

[airforce12]

but what if a user is posting a tut

[Darren1]

bump >>.>>

[Caihlem]

At my time, the techies had denied such a request.
It was explained that bots are starting to be programmed to be able to read Captchas

ForuMotion already has an Anti-SpamBot plug-in installed though. When you register, you are asked to confirm your password on another page. This may seem a "simplistic" approach, but being (to my knowledge) the only ones doing this, not many bots are able to pass the barrier. Indeed some manage, but they are extremely inferior in number to those who were passing before.
Just before this was installed, the ForuMotion team was banning and deletig no less than at least 20 accounts per day

=> Dump

[Darren1]

Cal, we still seem to be getting spammed daily, and coming to be quite routine, and quite boring to be honest.

We could add something other than a capatcha if that doesn't tickle your fancy
The tut for it seems simple too http://help.forumotion.com/tricks-tips-f32/how-to-add-image-verification-to-your-forum-t9643.htm

[MrMario]

Since we now have this option for all the support forums when a new user registers. I'll go ahead and Archives it.