Stop Spambot Registration

[texaspepper]

I am using Athena Style on my board

Question: Editing templates/subSilver/profile_add_body.tpl
In Athena I do not find lines mentioned in the install.txt.

Do I edit subSilver and this will make the Athena style work and stop bots?

[edetore]

Let me please go on record as saying:

I love this modification! Thanks Martian!

[slick99]

Thanks for this mod - it is brilliant!

[observe]

Today 25 bots for my forum. None of them uses the fields this mod wants empty.
Lucky you, my friends!

If I think that it would be enough a simply question/answer to defeat the bots forever...and there is not a mod like this...

[HB.]

Yes there is, it's called the humanizer, but it doesn't work. Upon registration, it asks if you are human using a radio button. The default is set to no (which will cause the registration to stop if chosen).

[HB.]

I tried this mod and either something is missing or it is conflicting with my huminizer and/or other spambot mods.

I ended up changing the mod a bit (moving your messages to the L_ area in the usercp file) and then discovered the error in the profile_add_body.tpl page:

<!-- BEGIN switch_register -->
<tr bgcolor="#FF0000">
<td colspan="2">
<span class="h1" style="color: white">{SPAMBOT_MESSAGE}</span><br /><br />
<span class="gen" style="color: white">{SPAMBOT_MESSAGE_EXPLAIN}</span>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- END switch_register -->


Eventually I just re copy and pasted it and got it to work. Strange. There must have been a bad character in there or something.

-dan

Do you mind showing the code? I don't have a major problem, but the humanizer field and this warning box shows up twice on the registration screen.

[MALdito]

Same issue here, duplicated switch_register blocks.

I'm installing the humanizer, cause this bot does not stop all the bots.

[MALdito]

OK, in includes/usercp_register.php

this line of code is duplicated:

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if ( $mode == 'register' )
	{
		$template->assign_block_vars('switch_register', array());

I solved it by combining the 2 mods like this:

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if ( $mode == 'register' )
	{
		$template->assign_block_vars('switch_register', array());
		// Aquí esta el Stop Spambot Registration MOD
		$template->assign_vars(array(
			'SPAMBOT_MESSAGE' => $lang['Spambot_message'],
			'SPAMBOT_MESSAGE_EXPLAIN' => $lang['Spambot_message_explain'])
		);
		// Aquí termina Stop Spambot Registration MOD
	}

[Deshen]

I tried this mod and either something is missing or it is conflicting with my huminizer and/or other spambot mods.

I ended up changing the mod a bit (moving your messages to the L_ area in the usercp file) and then discovered the error in the profile_add_body.tpl page:

<!-- BEGIN switch_register -->
<tr bgcolor="#FF0000">
<td colspan="2">
<span class="h1" style="color: white">{SPAMBOT_MESSAGE}</span><br /><br />
<span class="gen" style="color: white">{SPAMBOT_MESSAGE_EXPLAIN}</span>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- END switch_register -->


Eventually I just re copy and pasted it and got it to work. Strange. There must have been a bad character in there or something.

-dan

Do you mind showing the code? I don't have a major problem, but the humanizer field and this warning box shows up twice on the registration screen.

In the .tpl file, i just erase the <!-- --> tags and its text, and the twice warning disappears.

[OmniMower]

time will come when the spambots "learn" to read the warningtext, is it possible to have it replaced with a image instead of plain text?

[alstro]

last days i have spambots again on my forum
don't you think that people who makes this botscripts read this stuff in this forum too? and learn how to reg. on forums ?

[Dogs and things]

don't you think that people who makes this botscripts read this stuff in this forum too? and learn how to reg. on forums ?

I imagine those people_like_entities are usings bots to read anti_bot topics and to work out scripts based on the anti_bot_info they find.

[bairey]

Help? I'm a php programmer, do know what I'm doing, but have triple checked for an error and can't find it. After modding usercp_register (no prior mods, either) the site loses some globals. I get:

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Could not delete stale confirm data

SQL Error : 1146 Table 'xxxxxdb.CONFIRM_TABLE' doesn't exist

Line : 1016
File : /path/path/path/includes/usercp_register.php

So, I loooked around for an error, couldn't find one and tried defining CONFIRM_TABLE in that file, for the helluvit. Then I get

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Cannot redefine dss_rand()

It looks like a missing curly bracket, but like I said, I've tripled checked everything I added, plus all the stuff around it. Ideas? Thanks

[ycl6]

MOD Updated to version 1.0.2
See first post for Download Link

[Bernwa]

Martian... the Mod seems to be working great. Thanks so much!

BC