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Have been appearing often lately. I don't think any mods/admins visit the BO Games Forum, at least not often, but I'm just able to edit the post, not lock or delete it entirely. My section anyway, and then this:

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Most here probably don't care seeing a video clip featuring some cock and ass, but I'm sure some do. And while the thread title obviously means it's by a porn bot, it's still too much I would think for any random user to accidentally click on.

I know they're being banned and everything pretty well right now (they'll probably start to show up more and more though), but have you thought about a mod that requires a user to post a certain amount (say 5/10 posts), before posting threads?

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Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:57 pm
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Yeah, bastard managed to crack CAPTCHA in 3.0 version of phpbb. There are rumblings that 3.0.5 version will have a new way to stop them, but until then...we'll see if we can do something before then.

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Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:11 am
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I managed to get one before it even posted.

Anyway, added custom profile field to registration process, hopefully that will slow them down a bit.

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If it doesn't, there are some other things we can try.

EDIT: If any of you have a spare e-mail to test the feature, and report, would be great.

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