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Alien
post Jan 10 2012, 02:06 PM
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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."

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Are we really getting 10k new members a month?
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trackbird
post Jan 10 2012, 04:56 PM
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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.
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JKnight
post Jan 13 2012, 02:13 AM
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QUOTE (trackbird @ Jan 10 2012, 11:56 AM) *
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).


Is it possible to add some captcha type field to the registration page?
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Alien   New Member influx??   Jan 10 2012, 02:06 PM
trackbird   QUOTE (Alien @ Jan 10 2012, 09:06 AM) I h...   Jan 10 2012, 03:58 PM
dailydriver   QUOTE (trackbird @ Jan 10 2012, 10:58 AM)...   Jan 20 2012, 09:37 PM
Blainefab   For grins, click on the 'members' tab on t...   Jan 10 2012, 04:03 PM
trackbird   Apparently doing a recount doesn't change the ...   Jan 10 2012, 04:08 PM
trackbird   I cleared everyone out of the cache of validating ...   Jan 10 2012, 04:56 PM
JKnight   QUOTE (trackbird @ Jan 10 2012, 11:56 AM)...   Jan 13 2012, 02:13 AM
trackbird   QUOTE (JKnight @ Jan 12 2012, 09:13 PM) Q...   Jan 13 2012, 02:48 AM
cozog   I say this board needs MORE Russian hookers, not l...   Jan 14 2012, 11:26 PM
trackbird   QUOTE (cozog @ Jan 14 2012, 06:26 PM) I s...   Jan 15 2012, 12:50 AM
Steve91T   I just did the registration and it's funny how...   Jan 15 2012, 03:12 AM
trackbird   The issue is, I can't make it require a specif...   Jan 15 2012, 07:35 PM
trackbird   Works for me. Welcome to all of the new non Russia...   Jan 20 2012, 10:17 PM
Al weyman   The club I belong to (Classic Touring Car Racing C...   Jan 22 2012, 12:06 PM

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