"To fully appreciate fine cigars, it's important to recognize the various types of cigars. There are two basic categories of cigar. The lit and unlit." - P. Martin Shoemaker
Started by lowpro75, 07/22/2010 10:08 AM
QuoteMacabre - 7/22/2010 8:28 AMI had something insightful to say on the subject, but I lost my train of thought when I saw "porn sites".
Quotegrogo67 - 7/22/2010 10:42 AMUsually the CAPCHA keeps the bots out. Try increasing the difficulty on it and monitor. Some sites also use "human answer questions" such as 5+4=?
Quoteljlemer - 7/22/2010 11:19 AMIf half the membership are spammers, then something is being done because no spam is getting through. Spammers don't care about the subject matter, just their assignment.I got spammed on Facebook this morning for the first time. I tried to complain, but they have a form with only 5 choices for why someone is complaining and none of the choices were spam. This is modern technology. They pick for you what you are writing them about.
Quotekennyg - 7/22/2010 7:08 AMI think you just developed a good test to see if new members are "bots"when guys sign up, where we all fill out the forms, the admins could have some buxom babes with cigars, lounging on the beach popup, and if the "new members" don't miss a beat and continue to fill out the information, you just caught something that ain't a cigar smoking male : )
QuoteSenorPablo - 7/22/2010 1:38 PMThey can only get in if they can verify a good email address that is not already on file. Beyond that they have to enter some random letters on the sign up form. The sign up form should prevent new ones fromo coming. But before I had that, accounts were getting created but they just didnt have access because of bad emails they couldn't confirm.-Paul
Quotestogie_foggie - 7/22/2010 1:41 PMI just did some quick checking - did you know that out of 6220 registered members, only 552 have any points? I mean, just 1. Can we implement something that drops people off if they have not contributed at least 1 point in X amount of time? I know I haven't been the most active on the site lately but at least I check in and comment from time to time.
Quotelowpro75 - 7/22/2010 1:43 PMThe problem with that is that some people only use the site for the online humidor.
Quotegrogo67 - 7/22/2010 1:55 PMIs it bad that I can name the actress in the photo?
QuoteBrlesq - 7/22/2010 1:58 PMQuotegrogo67 - 7/22/2010 1:55 PMIs it bad that I can name the actress in the photo? Don't tease us. What is her name??
Quotegitfiddl - 7/22/2010 2:02 PMQuoteBrlesq - 7/22/2010 1:58 PMQuotegrogo67 - 7/22/2010 1:55 PMIs it bad that I can name the actress in the photo? Don't tease us. What is her name?? Mrs. David Robinson.
Quotelowpro75 - 7/22/2010 11:08 AMI gave out a few cigargeek cards at the cigar lounge the other night and was going through some recently joined member profiles to see if any of them signed up. Most of the new members are just usernames with links to spam/porn sites. What the hell is up with that? Can bots automatically sign up for membership or are real people just paid to sign up for everything? Based on a small sampling, I would guess 50% or more of our "members" are in this category. If there anything that can be done?
QuoteBrlesq - 7/22/2010 12:58 PMQuotegrogo67 - 7/22/2010 1:55 PMIs it bad that I can name the actress in the photo? Don't tease us. What is her name??