deskthority

I volunteer as a tribute! I mean moderator! Sorry, spam remover...

Have some experience with moderating small (yes, smaller than DT) forums. Other than that mostly as a regular on several bigger forums. I noticed that recently I spent a lot more time on DT than elsewhere, and it has easily become my favorite forum. So I would love to help with securing the greatness of DT

I think this would take care of the whole problem: https://www.google.com/recaptcha

It should be wrapped around register.php because after that, there's not a lot of spamming going on

For the average user to register it means only one click more.

One can set different anti-spam methods for registration in phpBB (including the older recaptcha), we tried them in the beginning and non of them worked as well as the "security question". My theory is they harvest phpBB registration urls, and the security method is beaten by humans. If one uses a standard method, they recognize those methods. A security question provides context, which confuses them, without reading the actual form and additional research.

I believe the current system we use and recaptcha are basically the same (in preventing spam). They both require a human to be solved, the difference is that recaptcha can be beaten by anyone, our questions require some googling if you are not keyboard-proficient

I think we're doing pretty well in our spam fight, not sure if we need recaptcha. We have enough users keeping a lookout who then PM matt3o.

Muirium wrote: Let's not rush too quickly. I'd like a bunch of candidates to stand up first. Especially those who remind me of chocolate…

I'd love to help, do I remind you enough of chocolate?

He meant someone else cookie!

Uhh okay

cookie, your chocolate wins