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Spam Bot PSA

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 1:57 am
by Robyn
Hello!

There have been several spam bots that snuck in within the last day. I have banished them.

After some diligent research, I have learned that the image captchas that came pre-installed with phpBB were pillaged by the bots many years ago. Fear not, there is another way. I have implemented a simple Q&A style captcha that is supposed to be effective in preventing bot infiltration. If this does not work, I will start approving member requests manually. If you see a bot, please use the "report" feature, it sends a notification to both pom and I for review. Also, never click any link that they post.

Thank you for your time and remember

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Re: Spam Bot PSA

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:00 am
by PAINTKILLER
Right on, I figured as much on the PHPBB end. Thanks for all your work building and maintaining this, already, special little place on the internet.

Re: Spam Bot PSA

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:09 am
by Robyn
PAINTKILLER wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:00 am Right on, I figured as much on the PHPBB end. Thanks for all your work building and maintaining this, already, special little place on the internet.
happy to help! 8-)

Re: Spam Bot PSA

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:30 am
by hat
saged, reported, and ignored!! keep up the hard work ( ̄^ ̄ )ゞ