Hi Philip.
Hi Philip. Did the developers respond to your bug reports? The
spammers won't stop, so it is either writing your own checker or
dealing with bots as you currently are doing.

On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote:
> Hi Willem,
>
> I have tried the stop bots extention in the past which is meant to do
> exactly that, but it turned out to be rather buggy so if I want this sort of
> functionality, I will probably end up writing my own. Unless, of course, I
> can find another similar extention to put in PunBB.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philip Bennefall
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Willem Venter" <dwill...@gmail.com>
> To: <phi...@blastbay.com>; "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
>
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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