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Captcha to register - Leviathan - 07-02-2019
Hey there, since there are kinda a lot of bots posting stuff in the forum I thought. that a captcha (recaptcha or something) would be nice to at least kind of prevent this.
RE: Captcha to register - Oni - 07-02-2019
We do have Captcha, though we'll be adding more protections soon. Currently there's some kinks with the upgrade I'm still ironing out, but protections will come next.
RE: Captcha to register - Tracefl0w - 07-02-2019
(07-02-2019, 10:20 AM)Oni Wrote: We do have Captcha, though we'll be adding more protections soon. Currently there's some kinks with the upgrade I'm still ironing out, but protections will come next.Makes me very happy to hear this!
RE: Captcha to register - Leviathan - 07-02-2019
(07-02-2019, 10:20 AM)Oni Wrote: We do have Captcha, though we'll be adding more protections soon. Currently there's some kinks with the upgrade I'm still ironing out, but protections will come next.
Oh we do? Don't even remember that! Sorry then
But really happy to hear that
RE: Captcha to register - mothered - 07-02-2019
It's effectiveness, depends on the nature of the CAPTCHA.
For Instance, If It's based on viewing a 20 second video and entering a caption (series of words) In the video Itself to solve It, then It'll be very effective Indeed. In fact, It'll more than likely prevent almost every bot from registering.
RE: Captcha to register - Oni - 07-02-2019
(07-02-2019, 10:25 AM)Tracefl0w Wrote:(07-02-2019, 10:20 AM)Oni Wrote: We do have Captcha, though we'll be adding more protections soon. Currently there's some kinks with the upgrade I'm still ironing out, but protections will come next.Makes me very happy to hear this!
It was supposed to happen much sooner, but due to the extremities had to change priorities.
RE: Captcha to register - XTH - 07-02-2019
Depends on the type of captcha, I'm guessing. Lots of CAPTCHA services can easily be "bypassed", usually it's like $1 per 1k captcha solves. My old website was flooded with bots, even though I had ReCaptcha in use. You just get the site's CAPTCHA key and site key and attach it to the "bypass" service.
Could be wrong, though.
RE: Captcha to register - Jiggly - 07-02-2019
I believe the methods Oni was looking to implement in future go beyond simple captchas but I can't say I'd know more than that. In the meantime, please ensure you are not replying to bot posts but are reporting them so staff can remove them.
RE: Captcha to register - mothered - 07-03-2019
(07-02-2019, 08:56 PM)Jiggly Wrote: In the meantime, please ensure you are not replying to bot posts but are reporting them so staff can remove them.
This ^
I've lost count as to the number of replies to bots, without being reported. I've banned around five this week alone.
RE: Captcha to register - Magnetron - 07-03-2019
Just do me a favor and don't implement some contraption that will end up filtering real users among bots. So many captchas are seriously annoying nowadays. The medal goes to Battleforums which asked me which game a font was from as a security question, as if I was supposed to know. Despite guessing it right, I was rejected due to a connection error which conveniently said I gave the wrong answer. Then the admin had the nerve to give me attitude when I sent several emails asking for help with his confusing bullshit, like his choice to make a dysfunctional registration process was my fucking fault to begin with.
Don't be that guy.