Can we temporarily stop registrations?

[Micawber]

According to Nathan, we already have a Captcha system in place (yeah - I totally forgot about that too), but he’s going to dial up the difficulty on it. a few will still undoubtedly get through, but that should help.

Sadly it does not appear to be helping Jan as I have just reported yet another spam post. IIRC my second such report today.

 

[John Lever]

Some Captcha systems are harder to pass than others. For example a bank of images with an item specified to identify the number of times it appers

 

[mulceber]

Yeah, I've been zapping 'em as soon as I see them, but it doesn't seem to be having much effect. I wish there were some better way than Captcha to prove that a new member isn't a bot, but I don't know of one.

 

[John Lever]

Yeah, I've been zapping 'em as soon as I see them, but it doesn't seem to be having much effect. I wish there were some better way than Captcha to prove that a new member isn't a bot, but I don't know of one.

See my post. Some Captcha are quite difficult.
Example how many motorbikes are in these images ?

 

[John Lever]

Some Facebook groups ask questions about you before joining

 

[John Lever]

 

[mulceber]

Some Facebook groups ask questions about you before joining

That could work - it would require a mod to evaluate the answers, and it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it could help. Trouble is, I don't know if it would be compatible with the VLJ's software. Worth asking Nathan though.

 

[Micawber]

Captcha's aside as they are just one line of defence, it should also be possible to tweak the software settings via the Admin Control Panel but this does require a knowledge of the particular software or raising a ticket with the provider.

One way is to handle new registrations manually and checking each individually. But of course this is somewhat time consuming.

 

[Micawber]

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