Dave Bean wrote: I think I'll move to email activation
drathbun wrote: I'm not saying VC has not been broken, I believe I've seen more than enough to believe that it has. But it's just one step of many. The challenge, as I see it, is to make things difficult to have spammers to a mass-flood of registrations or posts, while not locking out regular users.
Dave Bean wrote: (1) ... and not show latest member (don't know how to do this)
Code: Select all
case 'newestuser':
$sql = "SELECT user_id, username
FROM " . USERS_TABLE . "
WHERE user_id <> " . ANONYMOUS . "
ORDER BY user_id DESC
LIMIT 1";
Code: Select all
case 'newestuser':
$sql = "SELECT user_id, username
FROM " . USERS_TABLE . "
WHERE user_id <> " . ANONYMOUS . "
AND user_active = 1
ORDER BY user_id DESC
LIMIT 1";
In our case we syndicate topics to another website so porn spam reflects very poorly on us and we just can't have it.
Mr. Sharkey wrote: phpBB isn't going to issue these difficult VC images in a release because of the problems associated with disabled users.
Mr. Sharkey wrote: I went to the FEECAP VC Mod four weeks ago and have had no, none, zero spam registrations or posts since (I have Guest posting turned on with the VC for Guests mod installed).
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=381964If Freeze Status is Enabled in a Forum, all posts made by a normal user on that forum must be validate from a
moderator before to become visible for all users.
NeoThermic wrote:Mr. Sharkey wrote: phpBB isn't going to issue these difficult VC images in a release because of the problems associated with disabled users.
I'm not overly sure where you got that idea from.
I'll also note that freecap itself isn't immune to automated cracking, as per my topic over at area51