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General Category => General => Topic started by: jer on December 14, 2014, 06:43:20 PM

Title: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14) - UPDATE: Back to normal.
Post by: jer on December 14, 2014, 06:43:20 PM
Hey folks,

as you probably saw this morning, and then again this afternoon, the board is under a heavy spam attack right now. I just deleted a few hundred newly registered accounts that were spam accounts (if I got any legitimately new users in there too, I apologize. Please try again once registration is re-enabled in the next few days).

For now, no one can register. I will be adding additional spam controls tomorrow and re-enable registration shortly.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: ramblinrabble on December 15, 2014, 07:59:47 AM
Just dont forget to turn it back on this time
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 15, 2014, 09:59:52 AM
DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: Rapture Ready Blowhard on December 15, 2014, 03:15:23 PM
...but if I want to offer people payday loans in Russian, that's still cool, right?
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 15, 2014, 03:19:58 PM
established community members are still allowed to push their goods and services, no matter how sordid.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: Anna Karina on December 15, 2014, 08:41:09 PM
Jer, please approve my friend's account: Viagra800sellfreefastshipping

He really likes The Bananas and Mt. Gigantic. And he can get you the hook up.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 18, 2014, 08:56:03 AM
You can now register again, at least temporarily. seeing how this all goes.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: rory on December 18, 2014, 09:07:26 AM
Quote from: jer on December 15, 2014, 03:19:58 PM
established community members are still allowed to push their goods and services, no matter how sordid.

For some reason, this is probably my favorite context for the word sordid I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 18, 2014, 11:15:24 AM
well, that didn't last long. diabled again. back to the drawing board.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: Anna Karina on December 18, 2014, 12:00:54 PM
Would setting up an image code for registering not solve the problem?
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 18, 2014, 12:05:21 PM
i'm going to try it, but most likely no unless they've improved the mechanism from past versions I've tried. It wouldn't be any worse than the captcha though, which is the worst. The "what type of music does PIX put out" question was the most effective thing I've used for years, but for whatever reason, not anymore.
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 18, 2014, 12:16:55 PM
Okay, i setup an image thing for registering that looks pretty good. we'll see how it goes
Title: Re: Registration temporarily disabled (12/14)
Post by: jer on December 19, 2014, 08:46:40 AM
looksike we're good.

a spam account got through, but not the 100's at a time that was happening a few days ago. hooray!