Disabling of new registrations

[Ekona]

Guys, I've disabled new signups for now as we've had a mass influx of spam posts this morning and I've deleted at least 4 that I can think of. One a day I can live with, but this many is doing my head in! Hope that's okay, I guess we need to look at our captcha settings or other countermeasures.

[Joe]

Good call. I've killed 5 today, I can kill no more.

[siteguru]

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2906

One you missed (or maybe you didn't. )

[Ekona]

Right, that's about 15 I've just removed from the DB, basically everyone over the last week barring Polito45. Should do the trick for now.

[Joe]

I'm sure we can drop Polito as well. It's the only way to be sure.

[Jezreel]

Make a "New users" sub-forum, in which they have to post to prove they're real before being given priveleges to post elsewhere.
Works 60% of the time, ALL the time.

[Helios]

Thank you for your benevolent dictatorship.

[Dan]

We're 3 minor revisions of phpBB behind as well. Not sure if any new anti-spam stuff has been added (I think it's been tweaked a bit), but that needs sorting probably. I know what a pain in the arse it is... Sorry.

[Polito45]

I'm sure we can drop Polito as well. It's the only way to be sure.

Hey! I'm realistic... quite life-like in fact.
Shit at captchas tho'... and colour blind, so a Color Vision Testing Captcha would have kept me out.

[Jezreel]

Your secret is safe.....
MUAHAHAHAHAAAA

[Polito45]

Oh bollix.

[Savara]

Obligatory...