Inappropriate Posts...

hpscot08 · **on:** February 28, 2007, 04:23:39 am

Sorry about these posts, I have deleted all that I can because apparently I can't moderate every forum or delete people that join. (Murhphy maybe you could let me

) Thanks for your patience until Stephen gets online tommorow.

StephenM · **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2007, 10:31:44 am

Cleaned up, I might close registration on this and link it to airline mogul registration... Not sure yet.

gizgiz · **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2007, 07:15:25 am

Looks like it's time to go Easter egg hunting again guys

StephenM · **Reply #3 on:** March 13, 2007, 10:59:46 pm

I've done my part for tonight.

Air Elbonia · **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2007, 02:28:45 pm

Were these bots? A friend of mine with a different online game site modified his phpbb a little and it's all but eliminated bots since. "Not a bot has gotten through since I fiddled with stuff. " he says (i haven't seen any so i believe him).

1) made a default field hidden. If any data comes through: die
2) moved a default field far, far off screen using a DIV. If any data comes through: die
3) Changed the name of the 'email' field to 'craig'
4) Added another 'email' field in a off-screen DIV. Any data comes through: die.

Bots see the fields humans don't, so it's relatively harmless to real people yet relatively effective against bots.

gizgiz · **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2007, 02:49:28 pm

Okay.

I would strongly suggest you do this on a development machine first

Step One. Make a backup HTML copy of your registration form.
Step Two. Make a backup of your MySQL PHPBB database.
Step Three. Disable new registrations.
Step Four. Create a page inside AM that includes (ENglish include, not PHP include) that HTML form.
Step Five. Process and insert new row/relevant data into PhpBB.

Done.

Further questions may be asked and I take no responsibility in answering them since I'm an Invision Board guy, not a PHPBB guy.

PS: If you wanna switch....to anti-bot forum software

Just gimme a ring

Air Elbonia · **Reply #6 on:** April 06, 2007, 01:40:17 am

Quote from: "Air Elbonia"

Were these bots? A friend of mine with a different online game site modified his phpbb a little and it's all but eliminated bots since. "Not a bot has gotten through since I fiddled with stuff. " he says (i haven't seen any so i believe him).

1) made a default field hidden. If any data comes through: die
2) moved a default field far, far off screen using a DIV. If any data comes through: die
3) Changed the name of the 'email' field to 'craig'
4) Added another 'email' field in a off-screen DIV. Any data comes through: die.

Bots see the fields humans don't, so it's relatively harmless to real people yet relatively effective against bots.

I reiterate these suggestions, as they are still working perfectly well on the other game i play that used these on phpbb. (as a spambot recently posted a lot here)

d1-3508 · **Reply #7 on:** April 06, 2007, 03:56:48 am

(and I am cleaning up on my day off today!!!)