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Offline Mark

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Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« on: October 24, 2008, 12:55:30 »
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.
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Offline kill

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2008, 13:57:03 »
Thanks for taking care of us Mark. Always there for us.






NERD!
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Offline Asho87

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2008, 13:58:43 »
NERD :):):)
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Offline Nuala

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2008, 13:59:53 »
Think we should send out an e-mail explaining or just wait for people to notice?
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Offline Jim

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2008, 14:17:50 »
I've summarized what Mark is trying to say:

Quote from: Mark on October 24, 2008, 12:55:30
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.

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Offline Diarmaid

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2008, 14:19:09 »
those things aren't really called Captchas, are they?
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Offline Evan

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2008, 14:26:26 »
Would you prefer to say the full thing every time?
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Offline Towelyey

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2008, 14:41:58 »
thats it mark - your the worst computer nerd ever now give me the admin codes so i can clean up this mess!!!!
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Offline kmck

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2008, 15:44:20 »
He is also the coolest in his year.
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Offline caz

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2008, 15:53:43 »
Quote from: kmck on October 24, 2008, 15:44:20
He is also the coolest in his year.

that's not saying much  :P

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

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2008, 15:57:48 »
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...
« Last Edit: October 24, 2008, 16:00:34 by Monkey Loving Bob »
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Offline Ritchie

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2008, 17:06:24 »
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.
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Offline Lucy

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #12 on: October 24, 2008, 17:35:54 »
....eh...if the person can't log on..they can't see this message right?
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Offline Evan

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2008, 17:40:25 »
Has anyone else noticed the name of the latest member?
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Offline Karen

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Re: Broken Captcha, Spam Bots and deleted users
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2008, 17:46:41 »
Quote from: evanoc on October 24, 2008, 17:40:25
Has anyone else noticed the name of the latest member?

Total Members: 748
Latest: for_CAPTCHAs_sake


Tis odd indeed.
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