Knights of Spamalot, draw your swords!!!!

[Giblet]

I don't want to make Principessa jealous.

And of course that is the only reason that the room is not booked.

[modbaraban]

Not sure if the bots are programmed to deal with that sort of approach?

In my board I introduced such a simple thing as 'type 4 random numbers' in the registration form. Exactly 4 and numbers only. Not a single bot managed to register with that for almost 2 years. It stopped them dead. Not sure if this is easy to do with phpBB.

I'm all for full frontal nudity, but penis in ass is not what I come to this site for.

The thread name is what amused me. I learned to avoid the topics with words like 'nike' and 'iPhone' in the title. With that one, I honestly thought it was a question from some student, I though 'wut? hm.. that must be some new engineering term'

[Steven]

Well, I've beefed up the CAPTCHA image to be a little harder, hoping that will do for now.

We'll see how it turns out...

And if that doesn't prove effective, I'll remove the captcha and add a question as that sounds pretty effective (although I would presume that we'd have to change the question from time to time then).

[xpensive]

Perhaps you can try "Name one Colombian Spaniard who is intereted in F1?"

[Steven]

There was spam deleted moments ago, although I'm not sure if the user registered before my changes of after them. I'll continue my lookout for a "simple" solution just in case

[nosh]

it doesnt seem to be working. half the posts on the latest post thingos are all spam. someone needs to spam the spammers.

[Steven]

it doesnt seem to be working. half the posts on the latest post thingos are all spam. someone needs to spam the spammers.

Indeed, hence I replaced the CAPTCHA with a fairly simple question.
I hope this will do the trick...

[tk421]

I'm just curious here, but I haven't experienced any of these problems...I basically have no idea what you all are talking about; does anyone know why that might be?

Just a bit dumbfounded! Thanks!

[Giblet]

I'm just curious here, but I haven't experienced any of these problems...I basically have no idea what you all are talking about; does anyone know why that might be?

Just a bit dumbfounded! Thanks!

I already told you before, that just because you are on not on the board when most of the spam happens, doesn't make it not a problem.

Users like myself and many others report these messages and they are removed before you come on the board and read them.

Trust us, it really is happening, and we are not delusional.

I'll take a screen shot if it happens again, since you seem to need proof.

[Principessa]

Of course it is really happening. I'm the one who deleted around 25 spammessages yesterday.... Hopefully it's fixed now!

[Steven]

The silence in this thread says quite a lot really
So far the anti-spam measures appear to be working fine... sssst

[Richard]

The silence in this thread says quite a lot really
So far the anti-spam measures appear to be working fine... sssst

I wonder if you have stats to monitor the number of registrations that fail the simple question?

Whet is the simple question? It's tempting to register a new profile just to see the changes you've made

[jddh1]

Tomba's simple question:

"How old is Principessa's gardner's daughter's auntie?"

[Giblet]

Nice work Tomba.... cool to see users rallying to make the site better and an administrator who listens.

[Steven]

The silence in this thread says quite a lot really
So far the anti-spam measures appear to be working fine... sssst

I wonder if you have stats to monitor the number of registrations that fail the simple question?

Whet is the simple question? It's tempting to register a new profile just to see the changes you've made

You can just log out and go to the registration page just to check it out
I would strongly discourage double user accounts and they will be deleted if used against the rules.