Anything happening to stop bots aka releasing Captcha/Re-Captcha mods?

sagar · 2010-03-01 22:42:24

I believe this is the biggest trouble for any flux admin, even puners.org has stopped new registrations due to spam bot registration. Is one one interested in releasing a captcha/re-captcha mod for 1.4 version, or we have to just live with this issue

StevenBullen · 2010-03-02 11:41:42

Yeah registration was halted on http://punres.org/ for this reason, but not only this reason.

Captcha mod can only do so much. Check this comment made by reines concerning this.

Nothing will stop it completely.

dpaanlka · 2010-03-05 16:58:12

For my phpBB board I asked an arithmetic question using words and had a text field with the number 0 in it. The question states something like:

What is sixty plus four? Replace the number in this box with the answer. This helps us prevent automated spam.

This seemed to work essentially 100% for the following reason:

The question and answer are unique to my board only. Bot authors would have to specifically target my board, which is unlikely to happen.
The question is spelled out as words, not numerically nor using operator symbols (like + or -). This really makes it difficult for bots to understand, even the new advanced ones that now look for a math question.

Now the only ones that get through are the poor human slave ones working in third-world countries, which are much fewer. For these, phpBB has a nice feature where you can set a minimum number of posts new users must make before they can post without moderation. So on my board, right after a user registers any posts they make end up in a moderation queue until I approve at least one of them.

I would like to do something similar with my new FluxBB board but I'm not sure how?

Last edited by dpaanlka (2010-03-05 17:07:10)

Otomatic · 2010-03-05 17:49:27

Hello,

As my forum is for French people (Former apprentices in my school), http://aviatechno.free.fr/punbb/registe … %27accepte I added a field in the registration form:

Êtes-vous un humain ou un robot ?
Veuillez écrire « vilgénis » - En lettres minuscules, sans les guillemets et avec accent - dans la case ci-dessous
Cette saisie permet de vérifier que l'inscription est faite par une personne réelle et non par un programme automatisé.

Are you human or robot?
Please write "Vilgénis - In lowercase letters, without quotes and with emphasis - in the box below
This seizure can verify that registration is made by a real person and not an automated program.

Before this I had two or three spam a day. For thirteen months, no spam.

Mpok · 2010-03-07 09:20:43

@Otomatic : nice add...

mbacas · 2010-05-18 02:39:04

I have a setup similar to what you are looking for. It was an existing "Human Signup Validator" for the punbb system. I've modified the 1.4 rc3 register.php and included the QandA.php that you can get from here:

http://peek.sn.im/fluxbb_mjb_1.4.0 - Updated for version 1.4.0

http://peek.sn.im/fluxbb_mjb - FluxBB 1.4 rc3

After installing the generic 1.4 rc3 I started getting bot registrations within hours. With the implementation above I get none.

Regards,
Mark

dpaanlka wrote:

For my phpBB board I asked an arithmetic question using words and had a text field with the number 0 in it. The question states something like:
What is sixty plus four? Replace the number in this box with the answer. This helps us prevent automated spam.
This seemed to work essentially 100% for the following reason:
The question and answer are unique to my board only. Bot authors would have to specifically target my board, which is unlikely to happen.
The question is spelled out as words, not numerically nor using operator symbols (like + or -). This really makes it difficult for bots to understand, even the new advanced ones that now look for a math question.
Now the only ones that get through are the poor human slave ones working in third-world countries, which are much fewer. For these, phpBB has a nice feature where you can set a minimum number of posts new users must make before they can post without moderation. So on my board, right after a user registers any posts they make end up in a moderation queue until I approve at least one of them.
I would like to do something similar with my new FluxBB board but I'm not sure how?

Last edited by mbacas (2010-06-26 20:00:36)

Lanark · 2010-06-29 17:40:24

mbacas wrote:

I have a setup similar to what you are looking for. It was an existing "Human Signup Validator" for the punbb system. I've modified the 1.4 rc3 register.php and included the QandA.php that you can get from here:
http://peek.sn.im/fluxbb_mjb_1.4.0 - Updated for version 1.4.0
http://peek.sn.im/fluxbb_mjb - FluxBB 1.4 rc3
After installing the generic 1.4 rc3 I started getting bot registrations within hours. With the implementation above I get none.
Regards,
Mark

I'm using that now with 1.4 and it works really well, thanks

You can have fun choosing questions that are appropriate to the forum too

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