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 >> >> >> >> --- >> 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. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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