Re: Server/Software Upgrades
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:37 pm
What I've done on my kart club's forum (also phpbb3) to combat spammer registrations is to define a custom profile field asking "How many wheels does your kart have?", set the field to numeric and set the acceptable range to be between 4 and 4, and make it a required field when registering. I had to set the field to not display, so that it doesn't say it under your avatar.
I changed the 'lang' variable that displays the error message: "The value of %s should be between %d and %d" to "The value of '%s' is wrong." so that bots wouldn't be given a clue as what to put.
Not the largest forum, but we went from 40 attempted spammer registrations a day to 1 or 2 per year.
This feature can be seen here: http://portlandkarting.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=register (after clicking "I Agree")
I changed the 'lang' variable that displays the error message: "The value of %s should be between %d and %d" to "The value of '%s' is wrong." so that bots wouldn't be given a clue as what to put.
Not the largest forum, but we went from 40 attempted spammer registrations a day to 1 or 2 per year.
This feature can be seen here: http://portlandkarting.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=register (after clicking "I Agree")