UPDATED: CAPTCHA to prevent bots

[FliesLikeABrick]

Since we apparently are starting to get traffic from advertising bots on the forums, I will be installing this mod into the board to prevent automated registrations.  I will post back once it is updated so that any bugs or problems can be reported.

[PANZERCATWAGON]

Yay, that can only be good?

[FliesLikeABrick]

While installing this, I encountered a bug... most likely in the mod.  I need a couple days to look it over and hopefully I'll get it figured out.

[bja888]

The force be with you!

I hate those stupid image image verifications though. I cant read 1/2 of them.

[VijchtiDoodah]

You could use the cute verification test.

[FliesLikeABrick]

the who what?

[VijchtiDoodah]

KittenAuth V2 Test

It began as a simple "pick the kitten" test to verify that you're not a bot and expanded to the example above.

[MofoNofo]

Thats a great idea (the kittenauth)

[EnEsCe]

Great, but unnecessary. Simple image with numbers and letter would do the trick fine

[FliesLikeABrick]

Great, but unnecessary. Simple image with numbers and letter would do the trick fine

yeah, but I've got no need to code that if a mod already exists for it.  From what I saw of this one, it doesn't have tons of stupid crap, its just an image with numbers/letters.

If all else fails, I'll push this down my list as "Something to code" and will code it by hand.

[FliesLikeABrick]

I don't think I ever posted to say this, but a long time ago I made some small changes to the code on the registration page and so far it has blocked over 5000 bots from registering on these forums.  Notice that we haven't had a single piece of automated spam on the forum in a very long time

If you're wondering how I did it, look at the HTML for the form on the registration page.