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new member registration; help please
Topic Started: Nov 8 2008, 11:59 PM (203 Views)
dirty bernie
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I want to add the little box where whoever is registering has to copy the #s/letters etc.. to complete the registration.

would anyone know what that is called and if IF has that hack?

thank you
Bernie
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EddieC
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It's called a captcha. I know that IF has one that appears when you get a large number of registrations, but I have no idea how many a large number is (maybe someone else can answer that?).

I assume you want the captcha to help deal with spambots? It can be done with javascript but seeing as most spambots have javascript disabled it wouldn't be of much use.
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dirty bernie
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Thanks Eddie. these bots (or people) are hitting my board pretty hard. they have links to porn and such driving my members away. between a captcha and user validation hopefully i can stop alot of them.
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EddieC
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You can read this topic for more tips on how to keep spambots off your board.

What I've done on my board, which has cut the number of spambots down by about 75%, is blocked members from registering with gmail accounts. This will undoubtedly lose you one or two potential members at the same time, so it's up to you if you think it's worthwhile.
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