Bots

[Vault]

we seem to be overrun with bloody bots lol can you add some more anti-bot methods Hans?

I had this on my IPB board, they can get around capture now & email verification, I added a question to registration and this stopped them dead.

[Hans]

Do you mean to this forum or to onArcade? Yes, I will be improving onArcade and yes, I will probably add something here too, I kind of hoped that it would stop after I made it so that their links would not be visible for search engines, but apparently bots aren't very smart.

[Vault]

yeah I meant here on onArcade forums, I hope I do not get them on my arcade as It is not open for registration yet.

I found questions are a good thing to add to registration.


an update to the script would be good

thanks

[Vault]

I noticed many are unregistered....that's asking for trouble, best to disable posting for guests.

[Hans]

It is pre-sales forum, I do not want to require registration in order to post in there. All other forums require at least registration, most require licensed member status.

[Vault]

how about adding a question before sending post, this way you can keep unregistered users making pre-sales posts but will stop the bots...it's getting crazy and some are containing adult porn images!

capture is pointless now as most advanced bots can read them.

[Hans]

I will take a look into this, maybe there is a mod like this for MyBB, otherwise I will have to come up with something myself.