IMPORTANT: Bogus registrations

[dewdrop_world]

For a few days now, the administrators have been receiving a lot of bogus registrations. The CAPTCHAs are no longer keeping spammers out.

For this reason, registrations received since November 12 have not been approved, because there is no good way to tell real subscribers apart from bots.

We anticipate an upgrade of the forum software to make registration more secure. In the meantime, we are also deciding on a way to let real users get signed up while keeping the board safe from nonsense.

Please be patient while we try to sort this out, and watch this space for updates.

James

[johnstrr]

...there is no good way to tell real subscribers apart from bots.

Hey, James - I've had really good luck with controlling 'bot registrations by adding a question on the registration form - something that only a person would know, maybe only a person interested in the forum's topic:  e.g. what's the ugen to create a sine wave? => SinOsc, or something like that.  We went from about 10 bogus registration attempts per day to zero over the last several weeks.

Maybe you've decided this forum is redundant to the very active sc users newsgroup, but if not, there seem to be some mods available for your forum software which provide the 'registration question' feature:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;type=13