Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users

[Mark]

Hey, 

The CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.)on the website broke in the last SMF update, and I only figured out why today. Unfortunately while the CAPTCHA was disabled several hundred spam bots registered for the website.  I've just deleted a lot of those users, but I may have deleted a human user by mistake, so to the point:

• If you tried to register but couln't, you can register now
• If you have already registered, but can't login, I may have deleted your account so you'll need to reregister.

[kill]

Thanks for taking care of us Mark. Always there for us.






NERD!

[Asho87]

NERD

[Nuala]

Think we should send out an e-mail explaining or just wait for people to notice?

[Jim]

I've summarized what Mark is trying to say:

Hey, 

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I blah have deleted blah user blah blah blah blah blah blah:

• blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
• blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, I blah have deleted your account blah blah blah blah blah

What a loser...

Jim.

[Diarmaid]

those things aren't really called Captchas, are they?

[Evan]

Would you prefer to say the full thing every time?

[Towelyey]

thats it mark - your the worst computer nerd ever now give me the admin codes so i can clean up this mess!!!!

[kmck]

He is also the coolest in his year.

[caz]

He is also the coolest in his year.

that's not saying much 

quit bitchin' guys spambots are a plague, and besides it will teach freshers to use their proper names on the forum.

[Monkey Loving Bob]

Yeah! God Damn Freshers and their new fangled names that aren't theirs, emphasised by exclamamtion marks!!!


Edit: Mark is a nerd, somebody please beat him up and tell him 'he deserves it' after you finish it with a wedgie... Kat maybe...

[Ritchie]

cheers mark, i'm not at all sure i get what you do with a computer, but it seems to do the job. well done.

[Lucy]

....eh...if the person can't log on..they can't see this message right?

[Evan]

Has anyone else noticed the name of the latest member?

[Karen]

Has anyone else noticed the name of the latest member?

Total Members: 748
Latest: for_CAPTCHAs_sake


Tis odd indeed.