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Registration disabled at Classic Arcade Gaming forums?
vanrose72:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 21, 2012, 09:10:12 am ---it's probably the resurgence of Driverman, at least I'm going to blame him until proved otherwise.
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:laugh2: I am pretty clueless about the history of Driverman and what exactly he did. I've been following the posts and getting some good laughs. Everyone seems to be taking his attack in stride, which is good.
--- Quote from: ark_ader on June 21, 2012, 05:52:13 pm ---I run a SMF forum and I recently turned off registration due to bots. Same with Drupal 7.
Maybe the admin is waiting for a fix (again).
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That makes sense, ark_ader. I'd imagine registration will be up soon. At least I hope so.
vanrose72:
I just read this sticky post from Mark Alpiger:
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php/topic,4016.0.html
--- Quote from: Mark Alpiger ---... One of the reasons that registration is disabled is, indeed, spammers (as some have speculated). But, they're only a small part of it. The main reason is that a couple of jugheads got onto the forums in the last year or so, and slandered some people / entities in the hobby.
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In order to register, you must send Mark an email specifying your real name, intended handle, and email address. But here's the kicker:
--- Quote from: Mark Alpiger --- DO NOT contact me if you are not being either referred by someone who is an established and well-known member in the community, and / or on these forums or Twin Galaxies (tho I may consider other gaming forums... maybe), and / or if you are not an established member at the TG forums (or possibly other gaming forums).
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Gray_Area:
It's becoming more common. Unfortunately in some cases the attendance is so low that it hurts the activity of the forum.
404:
with all due respect to webmasters (including saint). I can't understand why anyone is running software like SMF. Most of these free boards are riddled with security holes and are vulnerable to bots. While most of the paid boards also suffer from bots and exploits from time to time, there are more than enough tools for them to help fend off bots. Even phpbb, which was notorious for having security holes has cleaned up their act as of late and offer custom captcha's to help fend off bots.
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