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They can fool captcha too?
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We're seeing a bit more spam activity than usual over on The Little Room even with reCaptcha turned on. We've turned on the Invision Spam Monitoring Service* and set up a very simple question for any new registrations to answer. Hopefully that will help matters.

*I don't know if phpBB has anything similar but Invision/IP.Board have a community based anti-spam service now (details at http://community.invisionpower.com/blog ... tatistics/). Any Invision board signed up to the service can flag a specific account as being a spammer. If enough boards flag someone then their email and IP go on a blacklist for every Invision board using the service. If enough boards use it then it should cut the useful life of any given spam email/IP down to almost nothing. I think that even though it's an Invision thing they should consider working with phpBB and vBulletin and have a co-ordinated spammers list between them.
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We now have a question that new users have to answer. the question is "Who is the front man of The White Stripes" should work out I hope...
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higherlimits wrote:We now have a question that new users have to answer. the question is "Who is the front man of The White Stripes" should work out I hope...
Simple and hopefully effective. Now, as long as we all don't go TELLING everyone that it's Jack Black, we're golden! ;)
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mojoryan wrote:
higherlimits wrote:We now have a question that new users have to answer. the question is "Who is the front man of The White Stripes" should work out I hope...
Simple and hopefully effective. Now, as long as we all don't go TELLING everyone that it's Jack Black, we're golden! ;)
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icdvet wrote:
mojoryan wrote:
higherlimits wrote:We now have a question that new users have to answer. the question is "Who is the front man of The White Stripes" should work out I hope...
Simple and hopefully effective. Now, as long as we all don't go TELLING everyone that it's Jack Black, we're golden! ;)
Dammit, I thought it was Jackie Brown. All this time I thought this was a Tarantino fansite?
So that's why none of my posts make any sense!
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