Once the spambots find us page 1

oblivion
16th January 2012, 05:58 PM
I think we should set up registrations so that new registrations need to be manually approved. Most sites that use the Q&A human verification process get between 3 and 20 spambot registrations per day. Recaptcha was getting more like 20-50 per day a year ago when we ditched it for Q&A at TR.

Right now, no registration approval is required, which I hope is making it easier for people to come by and check MindRomp out as they hear about us.
Gawdzilla
16th January 2012, 06:14 PM
Very good idea. StopForumSpam is a good place to check suspicious applications, as you probably already know.
oblivion
16th January 2012, 06:37 PM
yep, that is one of my stops.
nostrum
16th January 2012, 10:12 PM
OK so you're thinking it needs to become manual now or very soon? I'll need a postcard explaining what I need to do, if me helping out would help.
oblivion
16th January 2012, 10:16 PM
not yet, but soon probably. I imagine we'll get our first spambot this week. I'll write up my current bot-hunting today or tomorrow. It's an arms race :]
Robert_S
20th January 2012, 06:46 PM
not yet, but soon probably. I imagine we'll get our first spambot this week. I'll write up my current bot-hunting today or tomorrow. It's an arms race :]

I suggest that instead of deleting the first spambot post, it be moved to this thread to commemorate the milestone! :cheer:

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Is there a ^Your Posts^ link? page 1

Mr. Mellow 14th January 2012, 01:50 AM Aside from subscribing to every thread you post in, is there an equivalent to the "Your Posts" link that could be turned on? Or, an equally easy way to check for subsequent replies to threads I've posted to? oblivion 14th January 2012, 02:49 AM you can see your posts and threads you've started. If you click your name at the right top of the page, you'll go to your profile page. there is a statistics tab. click that and you'll see links to your recent (last 1000) posts and recent threads you've started. In a thread, you can click your name beside your post and get a list of links. One of those links is your recent posts. Mr. Mellow 14th January 2012, 05:55 AM Oh, yes, I know about that. The "Your Posts" link that both Ratz (top of their page) and Ratskept use takes you not only to the thread you've posted in, but to the latest unread post in that thread, in one step. This is actually what I'm in
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Tasty, tasty Food page 1

borealis 14th January 2012, 02:40 AM Forum needs a foodie thread. borealis 14th January 2012, 02:49 AM Last night I made chicken liver paprikash. couple garlic cloves, minced half cup or more chopped onion chopped celery chopped green pepper one medium chopped portabello mushroom saute this lot briefly, add chicken livers, brown them. add two rounded tablespoons good paprika, stir in and saute a bit more. Add less than a cup of chicken broth, simmer until livers are cooked through and veggies are tender. Remove from heat. Add around a third cup of sour cream, or to taste. Stir. Serve on linguine or other flat pasta. oblivion 14th January 2012, 02:59 AM I was thinking the same thing! I've been doing a lot of cooking for being on vacation, but it's been a lot of fun. Tonight I made red beans and rice. 1 medium chopped onion 2 celery stalks chopped 1 bell pepper chopped 6 cloves of garlic diced 2 16 oz cans red beans, drained (short cut, usually I start with
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should members be able to change their votes in polls? page 1

oblivion 16th January 2012, 03:42 PM In the thread about showing member post counts, Seraph asked the following: ... Oh, and on a tangent: Can polls be configured to allow revoting? vanilla vbulletin doesn't have a member-vote-change feature. admins can change the vote tally if a person requests, but it's a manual thing and only affects the count, not the record of who voted for what. I found a vbulletin hack that allows members to change their votes. It also lets people write-in their own poll options and vote for it. When setting up the poll, it looks like the OPer can decide whether to enable vote-changing or not. An admin can modify this after the fact. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=198535 The hack is for version 3.7, but from reading the replies, people have installed it on 3.8 versions successfully. Anyway, I figure step one is to talk about whether we'd like this functionality. ConvolutedLogic 16th January 2012, 03:48 PM I don'
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