[Alien]

I have a friend (really!) that is getting into CMC and I told him to be sure to register on this site. Not sure if he has done it yet, but I noticed a few posts by new members recently. Knowing this is a fairly small corner of the web, I was a bit surprised at their "Member No."

Joined: 23-November 11
Member No.: 126,725

Joined: 25-December 11
Member No.: 136,339

Are we really getting 10k new members a month?

[trackbird]

I cleared everyone out of the cache of validating members (apparently the auto remove wasn't working). It deleted 1,500+ registrations. In 5 minutes I had 4 new ones. So, I added a math problem to the registration process that has a field looking for a number (even if you blow the math problem, but put in the right number of digits it will let you in). Most of the bots fill in required fields with text to get through (like "Russia" for car type and "slovenia" for car use, etc). We'll see if having to put in a specific quantity of numbers slows the bots down. Or, one of these days I'm going to upgrade to different board software and I might move to a new server as well. We'll see how it goes. I've been putting it off for a while now.