[Scummvm-devel] We need to upgrade our forums

[Filippos Karapetis]

I don't find it nice that this textual confirmation has been added without
some sort of vote. It's ineffective, and blocks legitimate users from
registering. Please, remove it, we need something that won't prevent people
from registering. Once human spammers find out about this secret keyword,
they'll just redistribute it among them. So, IMHO, this isn't a viable
solution.

phpBB has informational pages concerning spammers - they're worth reading:
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2122696
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/advanced_block_mod/faq/f_548


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org>wrote:

> Indeed, I just removed some more spammer accounts.
>
> Concerning this new plan, I agree with Filippos: asking for real user to
> first connect to IRC and say 'hi' is too much IMHO.
> At least we have almost no more spam in the forum now we (temporarily)
> switched to manual confirmation, it's better than nothing :)
>
> See you
> Arnaud
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev.mail at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 27 December 2013 12:42, D G Turner <d.g.turner at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   ANYWAY, a new interim plan to prevent spammers, specifically the bots.
>>>
>>>   I am going to change the Textual Confirmation question into a request
>>>   for new users to join the IRC channel and ask for "The Password of the
>>>   Day" which we can change as regularly as we want, but say daily.
>>
>>
>> If it is in operation already then it has no effect. The bots keep
>> registering.
>>
>>
>> Eugene
>>
>>
>
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