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Icky wrote:QUOTE (Icky @ Jan 16 2011, 01:13 PM) How much effort would it be to add extra steps to any new account that puts their username as their squad name?

There are better and simpler solutions than that, including hooking a different captcha generator. reCaptcha is too easy for bots.

Icky wrote:QUOTE (Icky @ Jan 16 2011, 01:13 PM) How much effort would it be to add extra steps to any new account that puts their username as their squad name? Notice all the bots put down their name as their squad...

This wouldn't be a good idea

kramari wrote:QUOTE (kramari @ Jan 16 2011, 11:04 AM) This wouldn't be a good idea

Didn't realize you were a new account...

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AGREE

Could we just put a password on the whole forum (like rants has)?

I doubt the people using the bots could be bothered to modify their bots to enter a password of "I am human" to get into our forums - we're not valuable enough.

No idea how difficult any of this is to implement - these sort of fixes fix the problems on other forums - if someone could google search some appropriate IPB forum mods - it would be even easier.

notjarvis wrote:QUOTE (notjarvis @ Jan 16 2011, 10:50 PM) No idea how difficult any of this is to implement - these sort of fixes fix the problems on other forums - if someone could google search some appropriate IPB forum mods - it would be even easier.

It works for rants so it should be easy (altough it might be a lot of work and very annoying for users).

lexaal wrote:QUOTE (lexaal @ Jan 16 2011, 09:53 PM) It works for rants so it should be easy (altough it might be a lot of work and very annoying for users).

I thought it wouldn't be so bad because I've only ever had to put in the rants password once for every computer I've used for the forums. It would be another hurdle for new members getting on the forums, but as long as the password is on the same page as the password box I imagine it would be fine.