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The Death Of All Spam Bots

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:56 pm
by Captain_Obvious
So... I upgraded to phpbb 2.0.22 today. (we were at 2.0.18 ) :thumbup2:

After the upgrade, I finally was able to get a new image verification captcha working. A new captcha is probably going to be our best defence against bots because they've all adapted to phpbb's default captcha, and can figure it out without any problems. Our sweet new one uses different fonts and colors to fool the bots.
Here's to hoping that our bot signups will be significantly reduced. :toast:

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:00 pm
by special_Kare
Hahzas all around!!! :weirdassdance: :weirdassdance: :weirdassdance: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toker: :toker: :toker: :arrrr: :arrrr: :arrrr:

on a side note.... i deleted like 30 damn bots today!! feisty bastards they are!

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:32 pm
by Captain_Obvious
Yeah, I saw. :D That's what inspired me to make the upgrades. :thumbup2:

I see that the server is running GrandCanyon now too. :thumbup2: :arrrr: :arrrr: :arrrr:

Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:35 pm
by special_Kare
among others :thumbup2:

Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:28 pm
by Captain_Obvious
no bots yet :thumbup2:

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 10:00 pm
by Rickshaw
:thumbup2: