reCAPTCHA for forum registration

[L.C.]

I think it would be a good idea if reCAPTCHA was used for the forum registration form.

[★ CRe]

It already is used.

[🜲 Samapico]

Yeah... it is...

[Hakaku]

I'll still stick by the fact that reCaptcha is a terrible idea, since you only frustrate actual users, while bots can bypass it with ease. It also doesn't help that ReCaptcha is pretty much the number one most widely used captcha system around, so any exploit gives a single bot access to hundreds of thousands of websites. And to also bluntly point out, one thing that both MineGoBoom's forum and the SSForum have in common is reCaptcha, and as you may have noticed, both the server help forum and ssforum received spam from the exact same bot(s).

[★ CRe]

I'll still stick by the fact that reCaptcha is a terrible idea, since you only frustrate actual users, while bots can bypass it with ease. It also doesn't help that ReCaptcha is pretty much the number one most widely used captcha system around, so any exploit gives a single bot access to hundreds of thousands of websites. And to also bluntly point out, one thing that both MineGoBoom's forum and the SSForum have in common is reCaptcha, and as you may have noticed, both the server help forum and ssforum received spam from the exact same bot(s).

 

I just say we have a image of a ship from subspace and put it there and ask what ship this is. Though it wouldn't work with new people coming for tech help that have never opened the game I guess.

[🜲 Samapico]

I think we had reCAPTCHA off for a while back when the server was moved or something. If I remember right, we had to disable guest posting because the number of spammers was through the roof.

[★ Lynx]

I'll still stick by the fact that reCaptcha is a terrible idea, since you only frustrate actual users, while bots can bypass it with ease. It also doesn't help that ReCaptcha is pretty much the number one most widely used captcha system around, so any exploit gives a single bot access to hundreds of thousands of websites. And to also bluntly point out, one thing that both MineGoBoom's forum and the SSForum have in common is reCaptcha, and as you may have noticed, both the server help forum and ssforum received spam from the exact same bot(s).

 

I just say we have a image of a ship from subspace and put it there and ask what ship this is. Though it wouldn't work with new people coming for tech help that have never opened the game I guess.

 

Plus there are only eight options.

[Dr Brain]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a_new_captcha_approach.png

[rootbear75]

make a drop down box that says: what is the name of this forum: and have SSForum, Trenchwars, etc... and if they click wrong, they cant post. Easily fool a bot...

 

and make the choices randomize in the list every time.

[🜲 PoLiX]

a lot of these aren't your father's bots. They're newer bots that people record the registration or posting actions, and the bot follows suit and goes off. So that is 50% of the issue.

 

That and some the person does all the registration, then gives the bot the login info and sets it off.

[L.C.]

The last I checked, these forums were not using reCAPTCHA (which was before I made this thread). Time to check again.

 

EDIT :: What do ya' know - reCAPTCHA is used in the registration process.

Edited June 5, 2009 by L.C.

[🜲 PoLiX]

we've had it on for literally years. So I dunno wth you we're looking at. Well, was plain captcha since ~2004 when IPB added it finally, and last year they updated to reCaptcha. But I've seen no difference in bot activity.

[Kilo]

You can always manually register a bot.

[🜲 PoLiX]

a lot of these aren't your father's bots. They're newer bots that people record the registration or posting actions, and the bot follows suit and goes off. So that is 50% of the issue.

 

That and some the person does all the registration, then gives the bot the login info and sets it off.

 

 

You can always manually register a bot.