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The bot thing can be taken care of with PHPBB's CAPTCHA plugin.

The warnban thing is easy to do. I have the zip file with the mod instructions if you want it (as well as the modified and backed up original [RC8] files)

zilchy Wrote:The bot thing can be taken care of with PHPBB's CAPTCHA plugin.

is that the Enable visual confirmation for registrations thing?

Quote:The warnban thing is easy to do. I have the zip file with the mod instructions if you want it (as well as the modified and backed up original [RC8] files)

i downloaded the package from phpbb.com - is that the same thing you have?

thanks for your help, z-man, i really appreciate it. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

kahoku Wrote:

zilchy Wrote:The bot thing can be taken care of with PHPBB's CAPTCHA plugin.

is that the Enable visual confirmation for registrations thing?

Yup, I forget exactly what the acronym stands for, but a CAPTCHA is a test to verify a user is human, in this case, via a text-in-image verification. The default shipped in phpbb2 is USELESS, as I said, I dunno about 3's. But there are several good mods to increase the resilience of the CAPTCHA from bots.

yes - the question thing for instance. but if you (zilchy) tell me how to get the captcha thing, i'd be happy, i couldn't find it yet.

kahoku Wrote:yes - the question thing for instance. but if you (zilchy) tell me how to get the captcha thing, i'd be happy, i couldn't find it yet.

CAPTCHA is the visual confirmation thing. It works well in PHPBB3, but the one that shipped with PHPBB2 WAS garbage and was a waste of space.

Even with registration disabled you're still going to get unwanted users in your list because the bot-makers have figured out how to use SQL injection in the memberlist (PHPBB said they fixed it, but even under 3.0.0 spambots were still showing up on OKA, so I don't know that I trust it).
Easiest way to get around this is to adjust the permissions so that only registered users can view the memberlist.

okay, i just had a look at it - guests are not allowed to view the member list. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

so you say the question thing is rather unnecessary?

kahoku Wrote:okay, i just had a look at it - guests are not allowed to view the member list. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

so you say the question thing is rather unnecessary?

The visual verification? No it's definitely a good idea to have. The old version of it was garbage.

I think the biggest problem we had over at OKA was that the memberlist was public (in order to function with the old site) and I kept overlooking it on my to-do list because there were bigger problems with forum/site integration that needed addressing.

no, i mean the mod that asks a question like "what is 2+2?"

kahoku Wrote:no, i mean the mod that asks a question like "what is 2+2?"

uhhhh, haven't seen it.

In any case, there's really no way around getting spambots due to the SQL injection (which they may or may not have fixed in Olympus Gold).

OT:
Have you changed the maximum number of nested quotes from 3? You probably should, in longer threads the process of deleting previous quotes when you post is VERY annoying.

ah, thanks for the heads up, i'm going to change that. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->