[Scummvm-devel] We need to upgrade our forums

[Rob Kelsen]

Ender!


On 28/12/13 10:03, James 'Ender' Brown wrote:
> There's a PHPBB2 mod to replace the built-in captcha implementation 
> with Recaptcha:
> https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/phpbb
>
> Should still work AFAIK, and as an interim fix I'd propose Recaptcha 
> is bog-standard enough for site regos that it shouldn't impede legit 
> users. It's moot if the bots are exploiting a hole in the rego 
> workflow, but easy enough to apply I think it might be worth a shot?
>
>  - Ender
>
>
> On 28/12/13 06:43, D G Turner wrote:
>> Eugene,
>>    This was in effect as an interim solution / experiment and I agree
>>    that it has had no effect, which is interesting.
>>
>>    Therefore it appears that the bots have hacked the phpBB2 textual
>>    confirmation modification as it is doubtful that they were modified
>>    or programmed with the new passphrase, and this renders any current
>>    question pointless as they are bypassing it.
>>
>>    I have thus reverted this back to a basic question as I can't remove
>>    the modification anyway without shell level access.
>> Thanks,
>> David Turner
>>
>> On 27/12/13 14:30, Eugene Sandulenko 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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