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My forum has been getting hammered by 'registration bots' lately. For technical/logistical reasons, I cannot use captcha. I do use email validation, but there are probably a dozen or so "membership applications" (AKA 'registrations') per day. What's a guy to do???
I decided to try a novel (?) approach. I REVERSED the buttons on the policy page... you know, the ones that say 'Accept' and 'Cancel'. The first paragraph states that the Applicant *must* click the 'Cancel' button. Since my assumption is that bots don't read, I figured I would try this approach.
It is too soon to draw any conclusions, but ZERO bot registrations in past 24 hours!
I will keep you posted. Even if it works, it may be only a matter of time until my 'hook' is rendered useless... but I *am* enjoying no bogus 'applicants' for a while.
gary b
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I decided to try a novel (?) approach. I REVERSED the buttons on the policy page... you know, the ones that say 'Accept' and 'Cancel'. The first paragraph states that the Applicant *must* click the 'Cancel' button. Since my assumption is that bots don't read, I figured I would try this approach.
It is too soon to draw any conclusions, but ZERO bot registrations in past 24 hours!
I will keep you posted. Even if it works, it may be only a matter of time until my 'hook' is rendered useless... but I *am* enjoying no bogus 'applicants' for a while.
gary b
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Postet den
That's an imaginative trick 
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Have you tried forcing the registrants to fill in the birth date, using Shaggy's code?<
. Have you tried forcing the registrants to fill in the birth date, using Shaggy's code?<
Postet den
Eh...Gary, you do know that most real people also don't actually read buttons?
Perhaps it's better to rename the text on the button from 'Accept' to 'Yup, I agree', and from 'Cancel' to 'Heck no!'.
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Perhaps it's better to rename the text on the button from 'Accept' to 'Yup, I agree', and from 'Cancel' to 'Heck no!'.
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Postet den
Another 18 hours and all is well!! No bot registrations as of yet! Whoopie!
And no... I did not try the birth date thingy.
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Postet den
We should start a pool on how long it takes for the bots to figure it out. <
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