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#1 Post by DarnYak »

Turned off new users until we have some fix for this fucking flood of spammers. I also deleted a bunch of recently created accounts that haven't spammed yet - I assume they're spammers to be, but if any of them were real sorry about that.

Update: Currently enabled, lets see if there's any improvement.
***Update2*** Nope, disabled again

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#2 Post by Cokemonkey11 »

I'm guessing you guys will need to update phpBB if you want support for better captchas.

Take a look at the automatic updater here https://www.phpbb.com/downloads/?sid=1f ... 6b4a63b45b
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#3 Post by DarnYak »

I re-opened registration last night with administrator activation required. Within about 5 hours there were about 20 spambots waiting for activation.

I then changed the captcha it to a simple question and answer that anyone familar with EotA would know. So far 24h later none have been able to sign up.

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#4 Post by Discombobulator »

What if someone new to EotA tries to register?
I'm this forum's MVP.

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