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[Courk]

OK, I didn't realize that meant there was a different between LIST and list.

[CrystyB]

[Antrax]

[jeep]

Antrax,

I'm working from memory, but couldn't you make the compare case sensitive again, and prior to calling bbencode_first_pass (which I think the comparison happens), do something like this?

[Antrax]

Yeah, I could. I was just tempted by the patch being one letter long
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[CrystyB]

[Antrax]

It's very difficult to differentiate between the former and the latter if you're using a case-sensitive version of strcmp.
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[CrystyB]

strincmp(4)...

[Antrax]

yes... that's the change that I did. So, are we all clear on what the problem was and what the solution was? good.
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[Samadhi]

Great. How about those bots?
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[Antrax]

Nothing has changed since I posted that I'll get to it after this Sunday. Well, I know a whole of a lot more NP-complete problems, but nothing GL-relevant.
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[Samadhi]

Just poking. I'm really curious about your ideas on solving though.
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[Samadhi]

I'm guessing the large number (relatively) of registrations of late are bots that successfully registered, but failed to post.
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[MatthewV]

The puppet mafia game inspired about 15 new users who have not yet posted.

[Antrax]

Made minor modifications in the registration form to make spam scripts malfunction when attempting to register. Let's see if it works.
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[raekuul]

I did some advertising on a couple of forums...

Outta curiosity: What's the "Ignore this field" field for?

[Antrax]

[Samadhi]

Nice one.
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[Neo]

What if you flip the order of the fields? Put the profile info first, and then the registration info? Would that help at all?

Or stick a second "ignore this field" inbetween the password and confirm password?
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[CrystyB]

You could do a hidden <div> (display: 'none' or something) with a whole bunch of those, and have the relevant ones with silly names. Does anybody look at the names, ever?

[Antrax]

What intriguing ideas. I wonder how many of you looked at the GL's registration form lately?
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[groza528]

At the prompting I looked at the registration page and came up with another thought... is it feasible to have the string recognition randomiser switch capital and lowercase letters? That is, if the registrant sees "Fy5K2m" they should enter "fY5k2M?" Presumably, the bot sending this image to the clueless horny teenager would not also pick up the instruction prompting users to do this.

Or backwards, or Caesar-shift, or what have you.

[CrystyB]

[MatthewV]

I'm curious if any blind person has tried to contact minotaur@greylabyrinth.com to create an account.

[Antrax]

I hope not, as I have no clue who's reading it. mith?

CrystyB, computers aren't humans. Hello is as far from hello, to a computer, as dagnhapkfjnmk;a is far from 31931m93aquj0 to a human.

groza, that's an interesting idea. I'll have to do some reading on how phpbb generates its images, but I think that's a winning technique.
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[Samadhi]

I know I don't read that email so it's a damned good question. I don't like the idea that there might be people who have been told to email the minotaur and done so, but have received no response.

As for groza's idea....that's a great idea (if possible). A small puzzle to register at a puzzle site.
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[mathgrant]

You could always do what the Insert Disc Two forums did when they got attacked by spam!

Erm, and that is prevent all new registrations for some period of time.
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[raekuul]

How about... turning off style override?

[Antrax]

No. Any non-byzantium style will be broken, because we never installed the mods for any of the other templates.
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[raekuul]

[Sessie]

Aha! I KNEW raekuul was really a bot. See, he's trying to get us to reveal our bot-thwarting secrets so he can tell all his little bot friends how to beat them.
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[Ctorj]

[Samadhi]

How's this one coming along?

(just made a post in a thread and the thread is listed as having new posts...by me)
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[Antrax]

That's a feature, AFAIK. Same on all the phpbb-based boards I know.
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[Samadhi]

I don't think I explained myself very well.

99+% of the time, when I post in a thread and then view the forum I posted in, it considers my post as viewed. The above is an example of when the last post in a thread is by me, but considers the thread to have an unread post. I've tested returning to forum, post and the main index and there I have been unable to intentionally reproduce this.

My belief is that if it's a feature, it's an undocumented one.
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[Antrax]

This exact behaviour happens to me on all the phpbb boards I'm on. Not sure if it's a cookie thing, a firefox thing or a phpbb thing, but it's not a GL thing.
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[Samadhi]

Ok. I mainly brought it up because someone (IIRC courk?) brought it up many moons ago, and it just happened to me, so I had a screenshot. And I don't recall an explanation ever being given.

Perhaps I should have prefaced the image with "Why does this happen?"
No accusation was/is intended.
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[Antrax]

I wish I knew why it happened. Personally I blame cookies, which is the blaming immigrants of the computer world.
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[Verlm]

Your computer was having a coffee break as you returned to Off Topic.

[jeep]

I think it's a timing thing. It happens on all boards, though, so I haven't worried about it.

Did I ever fix the global announcement? I don't remember, I'll have to check.

-JEEP