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Approbation

Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 6:26 pm
by RomCenter
Due to regular spam, I activated an approbation for all posts from new users.

Re: Approbation

Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 6:37 pm
by Wanderer
Nice move. It carries with it some moderation work but at least it keeps the forum clean...

Re: Approbation

Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 4:12 pm
by MELERIX
imho better idea is implement Key Captcha for the new registrations.

https://www.keycaptcha.com/phpbb-captcha/

Re: Approbation

Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 7:42 pm
by Wanderer
MELERIX wrote:imho better idea is implement Key Captcha for the new registrations.
I don't know. Having observed the behavior of several of the spam posters in this forum, i've come to the conclusion that some of them are humans that do a manual registration and make posts that contain text which is specifically formatted for this forum (contains certain keywords related to emulation). There is a chance of course this whole process is done by a bot, but sometimes i have the impression a human is involved. I guess implementing the captcha may answer this question...

Re: Approbation

Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:50 pm
by RomCenter
Captcha is already there, and a question as well.
And a lot of term they use are banned (replaced with ***), but anyway, they add underscores or spaces to bypass the ban.

Re: Approbation

Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:53 pm
by RomCenter
This is a lot more calm these days, no moderation this weekend !