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cooper wrote:wat is up with the spammers
cant u just delete the acounts like that bloggreen one ???
i dont knwo anything about this at all
just wonderin
lol
-Ryan
After cleaning out another round of spam registrations from our forums, I decided to make a subtle change to the worst-hit boards to screw up the "registration bots" used for this. In some cases, you can not take advantage of v2.0.11's "visual confirmation", which also stops the bots, but this should work.
It is a simple fix, but I will not post it as a regular MOD, because customization is the key here. The RegBots work by going directly to the submission of the form information, bypassing the various agreement screens by simply setting "agreed=true". Fortunately, web form variables are CasE-sEnsiTivE, so simply changing the all-lower-case name "agreed" to mixed-case will still allow manual registrations to work, but will simply present a bot's request with the COPPA form, and not make any entries into your users table.
The affected files are:
admin/admin_users.php
includes/usercp_avatar.php
includes/usercp_register.php
With a text editor, search for "agreed", and replace it with your own choice of mixed case, or even something like "IAmInAgreement". As long as all references to this variable are identical, registration and profile changes work as before... except for those trying to bypass the system.
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