Rayman Pirate-Community

New users never read stickies...

Hmm... how about this:

When a new user account is created, redirect them to a welcome page with links to "Please introduce yourself here" and "All you need to know about Pirate-Community".

I have no idea if that would be easy to implement; if it's very difficult then obviously don't bother. But if it's relatively easy to do, it might be nice.

Nah that's easy, but that wouldn't change much.

Yeah, it wouldn't do anything in the same way as displaying the code of conduct does nothing.

"If you are a spambot, do not post."

The spambots seem to be hitting rather hard today, some chinese bot got in.

I guess they like to reproduce in the end of Summer.

It's quite frankly been horrific all week.

I altered some settings, hopefully we'll get less of them.

That's odd, in the past few months I know of two other forums (one of which I'm an admin on) that have had a spambot infestation.

Maybe they're getting organized!

I believe you are actually one of them.

Don't deal to soon, let's just see what he'll do in the future.

Is it possible to get captcha for phpBB? That'd probably filter most of the bots when they're registering.

Admins, save us!
The Spam Bots are hitting hard!

Manfred wrote:Is it possible to get captcha for phpBB? That'd probably filter most of the bots when they're registering.

They use Capcha, but bots have gotten smarter and have resumed their bombardment.

Master4lyf1 wrote:They use Capcha, but bots have gotten smarter and have resumed their bombardment.

Okay, I didn't remember if there was one. For some reason phpBB forums always has this spambot issue, more than other forum softwares, as I've seen.

The only thing we ask is that if you see a bot post, please report it by clicking over the triangle with the exclamation mark and follow the instructions.

That's enough to bring us attention so no need to contact us directly or using other topics to bring that up. Members that reply to bots can get penalized for that.

We've been using captchas for ages but they're useless now that bots have become better than humans at solving them. We are, on the other hand, also using a much more efficient solution which prevents almost 99 bots out of 100 from registering. So, no worries, everything is under control.

Bots are hitting hard today, 'bout 10 hit the off-topic area.

Lotta bots down that rawd ya.

Comment ? wrote:I believe you are actually one of them.

Beep boop, oh bollocks discovered! ("Runs" away making 'clink clank' noises with his metal footsteps.)
By the way sorry for the late reply, I'm an idiot and I forgot to activate the email notifications.