Have you considered implementing captcha for new accounts?

nmid wrote on Fri, 14 September 2012 21:42

When will we be heading back to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/. ?
I was going through some old archives and the links don't work with the change to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/.

It's easy to replace the link, but.....

I know... one more small upgraded needed, which will need a style upgrade as well. Also I need to tweek the new user registration process, as over 300 spam accounts were recently created. I've deleted them.

Ron wrote on Mon, 17 September 2012 22:27

nmid wrote on Fri, 14 September 2012 21:42

When will we be heading back to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/. ?
I was going through some old archives and the links don't work with the change to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/.

It's easy to replace the link, but.....

I know... one more small upgraded needed, which will need a style upgrade as well. Also I need to tweek the new user registration process, as over 300 spam accounts were recently created. I've deleted them.

Yea, I noticed the spurt in registrations... Just noticed something more, they all had/have really interesting home pages too in the user profile pages!

Coyote wrote on Mon, 17 September 2012 19:12

Have you considered implementing captcha for new accounts?

There is a captcha system in place, but it must be easily cracked. Log out, then click Register and you'll see it.

Is there a switch/fix to make new posts/threads show with the little arrow? completely threw me when a forum got a lit bulb but the threads had nothing new. Twice.

Wouldn't it still show a post saying " this user's message has been ignored"...?

I have noticed the same. If there is a new thread (a thread which the user has never visited), then the folder icon is red, but there is no little arrow as there is for a thread that has been visited, but has new posts since last visit.