pun_stop_bots (Page 2 of 4)

I used this extension only at registration with logical questions thanks to keydog trick in the source files.

We don't have any new bots since I installed it !
Thanks a lot and I hope it'll work for a long time

I've not tested. Any alert, error?

I am not sure, but it is very possible. I've tested it on PHP 5.3 and MySQL and it works! I'll test it later on SQLite also, and give you results.

Another nice feature would be to permit "blacklist" answers; again, I kludged it in, but it'd be nice to have official support for this.  For example, if I asked "If you are not a bot, type anything other than 'bot' in this box:", I could put "~bot" as an answer and it would reject an answer of "bot".  Again, it'd be nice to have this as a configurable feature though, where you could specify the character that inverts the answer, or maybe just have a checkbox next to the answers field that serves that function instead.

My kludge (replacing the appropriate function in functions.php), where a "~" as the first character in the answers box inverts it:

function pun_stop_bots_compare_answers($answer, $question_id)
{
        global $forum_db, $forum_user, $pun_stop_bots_questions, $lang_pun_stop_bots;
        $answer_list = $pun_stop_bots_questions['questions'][$question_id]['answers'];
        $inv = false;
        $result = false;

        if (substr($answer_list,0,1) == '~') {
                $answer_list = substr($answer_list,1);
                $inv = true;
        }

        $result = in_array($answer, explode(',', $answer_list));

        if ($inv)
                return !$result;
        else
                return $result;
}

One last suggestion for improvements: Record (or offer the option to) which question the user answered correctly during their registration, to help discover any "weak" questions (i.e. if spammers are consistently answering one particular question correctly, you'll be able to track that and remove/change it).  It might need to record the text of the question, otherwise if a question is updated after a user registered, it might show the wrong question when reviewing.

Have you changed default questions?

Fancy_Stop_Spam

This extension works well. It certainly reduces the amount of spam registrations, but it is amazing how many spammers are not bots these days, they are obviously paying these annoying people to trash our forums with their fake Gucci handbags, and Rolex watches.

I am using punbb for something quite different to a forum board, and have got one simple question on the stop bots extension, and it has stopped all spammers dead in their tracks.

Hmm? Could you give a screen? What doesn't work?

Does any one know how to stop the questions when some ones posts and just when its doing register?

As some times when i try to post on my forum i get stuck with unlimited questions being asked...

Just need 1 question once on the registration

I think i have fixed it now thank what i basically used was

the 1.3 version of http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/137433/#p137433 for v1.4 of punbb which gives me 1 question only at regsiter i think when i do get in a lopp of unlimited question it might be due to me being logged into more than one account and the cookies get confused? anyway

Thanks for punbb.. now no spam whatso ever for me

yeah the modified older version