Hi philip. Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum application process?
I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a question like "Type in the developer of BGT's name." "What is twenty-five plus thirty six? "Type the second letter from your given username." and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: > Hi again, > > I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, > wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. > > Kind regards, > > Philip Bennefall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Philip Bennefall" <phi...@blastbay.com> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. > > > Hi Chris, > > It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot > registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the > day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a > couple of seconds on this end. > > Kind regards, > > Philip Bennefall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Bartlett" <themusicalbre...@gmail.com> > To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM > Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. > > > About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my > browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's > not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally > from the audiogames.net forum site. > > > > Anyone know what's going on? > > > > Chris Bartlett > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
