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Fritzlein
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Web crawler creating accounts?
« on: Feb 3rd, 2011, 9:29am » |
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Omar, from looking at the New Players page it seems apparent that some automated process is creating new accounts, particularly for the country code "Congo-Brazzaville". Is there some way to block robot account creation without hindering legitimate users? Those junk accounts make the New Players page semi-annoying to read.
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ddyer
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Re: Web crawler creating accounts?
« Reply #1 on: Feb 3rd, 2011, 10:33pm » |
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I had this problem at Boardspace, which I eventually solved by embedding a timestamp in the registration form, and
rejecting forms with a stale timestamp.
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omar
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Re: Web crawler creating accounts?
« Reply #2 on: Feb 5th, 2011, 3:00pm » |
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on Feb 3rd, 2011, 10:33pm, ddyer wrote:I had this problem at Boardspace, which I eventually solved by embedding a timestamp in the registration form, and
rejecting forms with a stale timestamp.
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But if the bot submits the form right away, it would pass the check, right?
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Re: Web crawler creating accounts?
« Reply #3 on: Feb 5th, 2011, 9:22pm » |
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Maybe a captcha?
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Re: Web crawler creating accounts?
« Reply #4 on: Feb 6th, 2011, 12:33am » |
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on Feb 5th, 2011, 3:00pm, omar wrote:
But if the bot submits the form right away, it would pass the check, right? |
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There are ways around that.
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