Need to have some better security on the forums

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Originally Posted by movieman

'Captchas', for example, have devolved to the point where it's probably easier for a computer to read than for me to do so; I typically have to make two or three attempts before I can work one out.

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Yeah what the heck's that about?
What's the point of making them almost unreadable by humans, it's not as though it's going to make it any harder for bots.

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Originally Posted by Michael

Once I find out whether this method works or not, I will make changes accordingly (i.e. make a plug-in so that only new users under five posts have a one minute edit limit).

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I officially suggest that this restriction be lifted on people with member id's <= 18 :)

Anyway, yeah, just found out about this, and you should definitely consider lifting these limits a bit, maybe for members that have been signed up for at least a month or two. I very often edit my posts after 5/10/15 minutes because I remembered something or noticed a typo.

Maybe if we all manually went through some verification process that Mike sets up to have the restrictions lifted.
Perhaps something a little more ingenious & less ubiquitous than your standard captcha system.

Besides, the restriction doesn't stop the initial post, which is all spammers care about, only subsequent edits.
I don't see how it'd be that effective.

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Originally Posted by Michael

Just cut down the time that allows users to edit posts... To 1 Minute. So this might fix it.

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Arrgh... Now I'm going to spam the crud out of the forums pushing "updates" to the wishlist thread- and I was going to be starting part 3 soon (got several new deals booked or in progress of being so...)...

If it'll deal with the idiots doing forum spam, I'll cope...but...there's got to be a better answer. :D

Rather than a CAPTCHA, I've been seeing a lot of registration security questions involving simple math lately.
Like:
convert -background black -fill white label:"4 + 26" captcha.gif

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Originally Posted by Wyatt

"4 + 26"

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shit.... thats ughh..... 27

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Originally Posted by L33F3R

shit.... thats ughh..... 27

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See the Ontario system education is still at it's finest. :p

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Originally Posted by deanjo

See the Ontario system education is still at it's finest. :p

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That should keep the crazy canucks out of this place :p

and why not ban the rest of 'em while you are at it, Michael :D :D

There goes some of the top posters here :p.

Ok so I may be bad at math... However im actually vary gud at engrish. :D

More spam
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