Hi Willem,
I think I will end up writing my own when I have the time. I didn't get in
touch with the developers of the StopBots extention, because after trying it
for a time I decided that I didn't really like the way it operated and I am
okay for the time being with the post and registration approval extention
that I put in place instead. These bots I removed had registered before I
put the approval system in place and I simply hadn't realized they were
actually there.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willem Venter" <dwill...@gmail.com>
To: <phi...@blastbay.com>; "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi Philip.
Hi Philip. Did the developers respond to your bug reports? The
spammers won't stop, so it is either writing your own checker or
dealing with bots as you currently are doing.
On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote:
Hi Willem,
I have tried the stop bots extention in the past which is meant to do
exactly that, but it turned out to be rather buggy so if I want this sort
of
functionality, I will probably end up writing my own. Unless, of course, I
can find another similar extention to put in PunBB.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willem Venter" <dwill...@gmail.com>
To: <phi...@blastbay.com>; "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi philip.
Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum
application process?
I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a
question like
"Type in the developer of BGT's name."
"What is twenty-five plus thirty six?
"Type the second letter from your given username."
and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be
able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer.
On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote:
Hi again,
I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And,
wonder of wonders, the lag is gone.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Bennefall" <phi...@blastbay.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi Chris,
It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam
bot
registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during
the
day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more
than
a
couple of seconds on this end.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Bartlett" <themusicalbre...@gmail.com>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum,
my
browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's
not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior
occasionally
from the audiogames.net forum site.
Anyone know what's going on?
Chris Bartlett
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