Small adjustment to anti Spam setup page, will insure it's working for all forum

Started by etbrown4, July 03, 2011, 12:10:21 AM

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etbrown4

There is a trick to using the two registration questions verifying that the person is a human.

You can fill out the anti spam section and provide the required questions and the mandatory answers.

We thought we had accomplished this months ago - only to find that we had not succeeded. :(

The quirk, and almost bug, is that after you do all that input the is a tiny checkbox at the bottom of the page and if you don't check it, you don;t have antispam really working.

We only found this by accident when we tried a sample signup and the questions were not asked.

This lillte checkbox would be best highlighted or moved to a more prominent place. :)  It's reallllll easy to miss.

Good news though. With those anti=bot questions really working - our spammer signups have dropped to ZERO.  That's progress!

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

I agree with you actually, I've seen similar feedback in support recently about the question options being scattered all over the page, and not gathered in one central location of it.
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Norv

Yes, it's a bit unfriendly... At least, SMF could simply check upon saving questions, if there are questions but the number is 0, and ask the admin.

Probably a better layout overall for the page is a better option though.
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