Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 374. (Read 1058949 times)
Those captchas are iframed (I think havent looked at it in a while) then filled out by humans. They still fill them in, its not truly automated. They pay people 0.00001 cents to fill them out.
somethig similar?! Im sure online merchants are doing somethig to avoid
bots or have to bots been able to perpetrate all registration security out there?
bots or have to bots been able to perpetrate all registration security out there?
I have never seen a perfect method of keeping them out. But considering everything, since we do not NEED people to register, our best offense is to remove the option for the registration so the site isnt pounded constantly. Now I am looking into filtering the user accounts out to remove the spam ones.
Select users that have empty user pages. That should cover it.
Also, for combating captchas, the best method I've seen so far is what Feathercoop did. Once a week they changed the captcha, and it was always something you had to look up. For example, "what is the largest known galaxy" and things like that. This ensured it required work to get the next one, and it killed the point of using a bot since you couldn't really automate things.
somethig similar?! Im sure online merchants are doing somethig to avoid
bots or have to bots been able to perpetrate all registration security out there?
bots or have to bots been able to perpetrate all registration security out there?
I have never seen a perfect method of keeping them out. But considering everything, since we do not NEED people to register, our best offense is to remove the option for the registration so the site isnt pounded constantly. Now I am looking into filtering the user accounts out to remove the spam ones.
somethig similar?! Im sure online merchants are doing somethig to avoid
bots or have to bots been able to perpetrate all registration security out there?
bots or have to bots been able to perpetrate all registration security out there?
It really is just bots. About 36k accounts actually. But since registration requires approval, they are just causing problems.
Cant we just add a captcha on the registration form?
It really is just bots. About 36k accounts actually. But since registration requires approval, they are just causing problems.
WHAT?!?!? Thousands of accounts?!?!?!
It really is just bots. About 36k accounts actually. But since registration requires approval, they are just causing problems.
The host has admitted fault, but I am awaiting them to complete tickets that are open to correct the issues. After that we are going to go clean up the havoc caused by the bots.
Is there a way to implement a captcha to access the registration page?
That might help!
There's really no reason to allow self-registration. It does no good since you need to end given the "okay" from an admin prior to any of your posts holding value. Doing manual registration also makes it easier to ensure that new writers are handled properly, rather than skipped over.
I have noticed there are a lot of accounts signed up that aren't writers. Are those all bots? Or, is there any benefit to having an account that just allows you to read stuff?
I think some of them are older accounts, maybe from the "teen" rounds (13-19) that dropped off later.
The host has admitted fault, but I am awaiting them to complete tickets that are open to correct the issues. After that we are going to go clean up the havoc caused by the bots.
Is there a way to implement a captcha to access the registration page?
That might help!
There's really no reason to allow self-registration. It does no good since you need to end given the "okay" from an admin prior to any of your posts holding value. Doing manual registration also makes it easier to ensure that new writers are handled properly, rather than skipped over.
I have noticed there are a lot of accounts signed up that aren't writers. Are those all bots? Or, is there any benefit to having an account that just allows you to read stuff?
The host has admitted fault, but I am awaiting them to complete tickets that are open to correct the issues. After that we are going to go clean up the havoc caused by the bots.
Is there a way to implement a captcha to access the registration page?
That might help!
There's really no reason to allow self-registration. It does no good since you need to end given the "okay" from an admin prior to any of your posts holding value. Doing manual registration also makes it easier to ensure that new writers are handled properly, rather than skipped over.
The host has admitted fault, but I am awaiting them to complete tickets that are open to correct the issues. After that we are going to go clean up the havoc caused by the bots.
Is there a way to implement a captcha to access the registration page?
That might help!
The host has admitted fault, but I am awaiting them to complete tickets that are open to correct the issues. After that we are going to go clean up the havoc caused by the bots.
It's off and on for me. Kind of strange.
Still broken for me, this shouldn't affect the next round's payouts, or will it?
Sorry I was not on for a while, I was caught up in my studies.
Will be deleting any spam or flaming.
- acs267
(Hopefully, Devtome isn't /dead. Probably either a minor system corruption, or a inexperienced hacker.)
Will be deleting any spam or flaming.
- acs267
(Hopefully, Devtome isn't /dead. Probably either a minor system corruption, or a inexperienced hacker.)
I had bookmarked a link on devtome and it now says it does not exist? Something to do with this? Any information on what is going on?
Thnx
FWIW, If you click on my Devtome article Fat Cats and Mercenaries, the most recent version just shows a bunch of gibberish. However, one could read the article by going back to the revision histories.
I haven't tried to log in to the Devtome since all this trouble started. I'm just mentioning the above in case it's helpful to those who are working on solving the problem.
I haven't tried to log in to the Devtome since all this trouble started. I'm just mentioning the above in case it's helpful to those who are working on solving the problem.
I saw all this about Devtome being down... and decided tonight wasn't the best time to write 
Thanks to everyone who is working on fixing it, and hopefully it will be back up and running very soon.
On another note, I registered for an account on MCXnow and did some trades, and I have to say so far I'm REALLY liking it.
Thanks to everyone who is working on fixing it, and hopefully it will be back up and running very soon.
On another note, I registered for an account on MCXnow and did some trades, and I have to say so far I'm REALLY liking it.
I have an account too!
I saw all this about Devtome being down... and decided tonight wasn't the best time to write
Thanks to everyone who is working on fixing it, and hopefully it will be back up and running very soon.
On another note, I registered for an account on MCXnow and did some trades, and I have to say so far I'm REALLY liking it.
Thanks to everyone who is working on fixing it, and hopefully it will be back up and running very soon.
On another note, I registered for an account on MCXnow and did some trades, and I have to say so far I'm REALLY liking it.
Ya i see a bright future for it.. too bad theres no reward for
early registrants
I saw all this about Devtome being down... and decided tonight wasn't the best time to write
Thanks to everyone who is working on fixing it, and hopefully it will be back up and running very soon.
On another note, I registered for an account on MCXnow and did some trades, and I have to say so far I'm REALLY liking it.
Thanks to everyone who is working on fixing it, and hopefully it will be back up and running very soon.
On another note, I registered for an account on MCXnow and did some trades, and I have to say so far I'm REALLY liking it.
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