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A question for the management?

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  • 24-08-2005 10:45am
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    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭


    I am just wondering in light of these fupping eejits that sign up and get banned for posting how to make money fast, is there a way of stopping it. What I mean is you know like on Yahoo and such like when you register you have to enter a code at the bottom of the page from the picture above it.
    Would this curb such registrations.

    Willem D.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Goodshape
    Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    It would stop bots, but I don't think that's what these ejits are. They're "real" ejits who can type in a code just as well as you or I :eek:


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    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    Alot of these guys in general are bots .


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    Lump
    Registered Users Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    I dont think they are. I think they are real people who come on here and post.

    John


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Actually, bot attacks are quite rare. You can easily spot a bot posting, as it will post on many forums, indiscriminately. Any spammers I've seen recently choose one or two forums remotely related to what they're pimping, and leave it at that. Maybe I've just been getting into work after it's all been cleaned up by ecksor.


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    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    Right then the next question is there a better way of vetting new users when the register.


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Such as?

    I know a few forums ban people from using @hotmail and @yahoo addresses when registering, but I don't feel that's reasonable.

    You coulso specify a minimum time after activation (say, a day) that a user has to wait before they can post. The problem with this is that a new person wants to ask a question, they register, realise they can't post, then go elsewhere, never to return, where they may have stayed and continued to post if they'd been allowed.

    A delay of five to ten minutes before they can post may discourage bots, while not inconveniencing new users too much, but then there's not really a big problem here of bots. :)


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Nor are such posters the nastiest, nor the most frequent source of problems. And they're dealt with quickly enough.


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    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    retina scan and an iq test.


    i don't think there is any reasonable way of stopping them signing up because there is no way to differentiate between them and a regular person.


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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    We used to get bots pretty regularly but I don't recall seeing any in about a year. They're ridiculously easy to stop anyway.


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