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Old 14-02-2007, 21:00   #21
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Now that my forum is closed again, I suppose we will see a 300% reduction in spambots anyway...
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Old 14-02-2007, 21:31   #22
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... I was talking about is where a image of a letter or sumpin' would need to be entered into a text box ...
Oh, they've learned to bypass that ages ago.
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Old 01-03-2007, 16:39   #23
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Dunno if it is possible on CDZ, but would it help/be possible to ban certain IP addresses from registering on the forum?

A list of common spambot IPs is located at http://www.gearhack.com/Articles/FightSpam/ and it is claimed there (as well as on wikipedia) that it can have some good result in fighting common spambots...

At the moment, spambots are really spiralling out of control on CDZ, it seems almost 50% of the spam produced on CDZ is now caused by bots, and we get several new "members" a day that need to be banned by the mods/admins on the same day they register.
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Old 01-03-2007, 23:27   #24
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Can you make CDZ a social networking site requiring a recommendation of a current member to register?
That could really help limit the new spam bot rampage
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Old 02-03-2007, 00:22   #25
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do we really need new people?

all the cool ones are here.

and all the peeps we by mistake havent got on the memeber roster should be invited.


I second RTM's proposal
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Old 02-03-2007, 00:39   #26
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im not sure- this site would be good to grow a bit- whilst no doubt the people here are top quality it makes us seem like a bunch of arseholes if we force people to be invited, i prefer kemal's idea.
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Old 02-03-2007, 02:32   #27
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Paal speaks the truth!!
And many more. Make people work to join.

That way I can say I am in an exclusive internet chat group.

WOOT!!
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Old 02-03-2007, 02:38   #28
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Easy : Just put a question about the Monty Pythons when you want to register here, that will prevent all the bots* from registering and spamming the place. Heck, I can't be blamed of elitism, I don't even know the Monty Pythons !


* except the bots which know the Monty Pythons and which can understand a question, or which can type a billion answers or so within a limited amount of time.
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Old 02-03-2007, 13:41   #29
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Paal speaks the truth!!
And many more. Make people work to join.

That way I can say I am in an exclusive internet chat group.

WOOT!!
so I'm not in the elite group I'm #9 in <s>spam</s> posts []

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Old 02-03-2007, 17:13   #30
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Can you make CDZ a social networking site requiring a recommendation of a current member to register?
Although it's a good suggestion, it's against the spirit of our founding fathers. You know, anarchist butchers, no elitism and such...

On an unrelated note, would it be possible to restrict new members to post new threads until they've posted in a thread first? That'd keep the bots at bay.
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