Q&A contest.

a_k · Post by **a_k** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:35 am

Hello everyone,

Instead of frustrating the public with unreadable captchas for the registration process, how about using a set of questions and answers?

- The questions should be easy to answer for humans and difficult for machines.
- It should not be possible to look up the answer, e.g. on google.

Please PM your questions + answers to me. The winning entries will be used for testing the "intelligence" of spam bots

Ahmet

holorefugee · Post by **holorefugee** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:15 am

If you like coding php type a random string of numbers:

three, two, five, seven and six

Then the answer would be:
32576

This proves to be pretty good. More complex is to place them in a sentence chosen at random from Wikipedia. Make sure to make the mods in through the admin panel and not in the files directly. This will make later upgrades easier.

holorefugee · Post by **holorefugee** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:26 pm

I posted a long reply to this thread. Was it deleted or lost?

a_k · Post by **a_k** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 3:47 am

Your posting was waiting for approval for some reason. I'll check why.

Post by **hadmin** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:26 am

Newly registered users were not placed in the approriate user group. There were 5 more postings like yours. I've checked all users permissions to make sure they can post without having to wait for approval. New users still don't get assigned their default role automatically. I'll address the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Ahmet