The best CAPTCHA is one that doesn't already have a script written to answer it. I seem to remember an old topic where I prototyped a CAPTCHA similar to what carebearkid is talking about: "This figure represents a playfield in a Tetris game. The columns are numbered 1 through 10. Into which column should you drop the I piece to clear a line?" Want me to clean it up so you all can play with it? Oh wait. Kotetsu is "carebearkid" now? That makes three of us: caffeine represents Nicholas from The Care Bears Movie tepples represents Dark Heart from Care Bears Movie II: A New Beginning carebearkid represents Tenderheart Bear
since the bot is not supposed to answer any question, just ask a simple mathematical problem as 2+2. Another solution to this problem : ban amnesia...
caffeine: i logged out and didn't see a link to sign up. i wasn't sure if you were aware of that. is this just part of the transition process?
1 more vote for reCAPTCHA. It's for a good cause, and anything that requires specialized knowledge is just elitist, no matter how trivial it is.
I'm gonna be crazy here, and suggest KittenAuth, using tetromino images as the possible images, and for a named tetromino, the user has to select the ones that match it. Slightly unfair to the trislexics, however...
Yeah, I installed reCAPTCHA yesterday, but it broke the registration page. I disabled registration until I can sort this out.
Ahhh, can you please just turn it back on somehow? I don't mind the porno bots, and I just advertised the Blockbox league all over the place to a load of people who now won't be able to actually register to participate.
I believe there's also a mod out there that allows you to use hotornot.com as a captcha. Of course, personal opinion could cause false negatives
If jujube really did want to step down, I would love to take his place. Unfortunately I guess I haven't been a member long enough. I have been lurking on this site since long before I joined, though. Could that count?
my 5cent: i recently had the same problem with my little phpbb3 installation at cubestorm.com. (demo: http://coreloop.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=register ) i installed the very easy to install --- guess what its called --- EasyCaptchaPHPBB http://kestas.kuliukas.com/EasyCaptchaPHPBB/ and it completely stopped any automated spammers. i can understand caffeines objections against any more mods, i hate them too, because it makes updating phpbb3 harder or sometimes impossible. but you can see easycaptchaphp just as a hot fix. if it comes to updating , just overwrite it with a new and more spam-proof phpbb version..
