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(enter backwoods accent here) when the post's subject and the author's name are the same.... you JUST might be viewing a spam post.

gameboy has added a great feature to the HARP forum, in that you can't register on the forum unless you've submited one harp recording. wonder if that would work for marpirc, seymore?

Time to put some Turing Test in that registration form

Chad wrote:(enter backwoods accent here) when the post's subject and the author's name are the same.... you JUST might be viewing a spam post.

gameboy has added a great feature to the HARP forum, in that you can't register on the forum unless you've submited one harp recording. wonder if that would work for marpirc, seymore?

At this point it feels like SOMETHING needs to be done. The spam seems to be getting worse every day.

yeah today was the worst it's ever been, 6 spam messages i count so far. seymore, save US.

RAX wrote:Time to put some Turing Test in that registration form

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down... You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Leon?

"Let me tell you about my mother."

and suddenly Leon shoots Cavachai

Seymour would have to do something special code-wise in PHP... disable the registration page, essentially. As in, comment out the include file, I BELIEVE.

I'll see if I can pick him off if he doesn't get picked off beforehand.