bots, bots everywhere

[CM]

can we maybe set registration to require validation or something?

[Doru]

Yeah, I mean seriously, It's a miracle there hasn't been any spam topics or at least not a crap load of them. There's only been one new member that I've seen do something, don't remember the name but all they said was hi before leaving like everyone else. >.>

[Weirdo]

At the very least can't we delete the ones that already exist...

[Picard]

I have locked registration and deleted all bot members. Should you wish to invite a friend to join, contact a mod/admin about it.

[Weirdo]

Wow that must have been a lot of work. Thanks very much Ciel

[Picard]

Not really. Took me only ten minutes.

[Doru]

Why would you lock registration and not just add the captcha thing? What if some new person we don't know actually tried to join?

[DarkToph]

Why would you lock registration and not just add the captcha thing? What if some new person we don't know actually tried to join?

I'm 99% certain there's no way for us to add a captcha. smfforfree has to add it to their default site registration system, I believe.

I'll have to check to be certain, but the admin CP is so moronic even if there is an option for it, finding it might be a journey.

EDIT - Looks like captcha is enabled. We even have an option to set the difficulty of reading the captcha (handy?) Some bots might be able to avoid it, or it's possible actual human beings sign a bot up themselves to advertise. *shrug*

Either way it doesn't work. Cuz we got a new adbot member like at least once a week...