New CAPTCHA for PPM forums.

Banshee · Last edited by Banshee on Sat May 03, 2014 8:51 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello everyone! Once in a while, I receive emails from desesperate users who are unable to beat our CAPTCHA in order to register in our forums. We've been looking for a reliable CAPTCHA that can be used at as many machines as possible. We've found one a while ago and, after some tests, it seems to be reliable enough to replace the current one.

So, today, we have replaced it with the new one for guest posting and to register an account. So, registering here is much easier now. If there is no bot spam in the forums in the next days, this CAPTCHA will be the official one, otherwise, I'll place the old one back. I just don't want this place to become haunted by bots like many other forums around the world.

By the way, it is always important to remind that any member who act like a bot (by infesting the forums with random unauthorized propaganda) os imediately banned and all its posts are deleted as quickly as possible, with no warnings whatsoever.

Bittah Commander · Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 7:41 pm Post subject:

I just quickly tried posting as a guest with this new system and it appears to be working well Smile

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Banshee · Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:52 pm Post subject:

I've changed my mind and my first post. New CAPTCHA is online for guest posting and registering. If something goes wrong, I'll put the old one back, but I doubt I'll need to do it.

Dupl3xxx · Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 9:37 pm Post subject:

Just tested it, and I will say it appears to be a great improvement over the old way! Very Happy

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ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

Are you able to auto-delete all of someone's posts or do you have to do it manually one by one?

Anon · Guest

Thats a seriously weird captcha.
But hell atleast humans can solve it, nice one.

I hope its made in html/js instead of flash or html5 tough since not all browsers support that.

Spambot-X · Guest

Lol, I like that captcha! It works on my phone, good work Bansbee. Smile

Guinea Pig Guest · Guest

I've tested this captcha with a couple of android browsers. It works well with Chrome and fails horribly with Dolphin browser with Jetpack. Apparently, objects can't be dragged and dropped in that browser. If you are a fan of Dolphin, you should temporarily switch to Chrome to create an account here and then, get back to Dolphin.

Banshee · Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 3:21 am Post subject:

The post above (Guinea Pig Test) was made by me. I've also tried Firefox for Android and the CAPTCHA works fine there. I don't know why Dolphin doesn't let it drag and drop objects and scrolls the page instead. I hope they'll eventually fix it.

KenoisisTest · Guest

OK............The new captcha.....I have nothing to say LOL

^Rampastein · Rampastring **Joined**: 11 Oct 2008 **Location**: Gensokyo

I could also complete it on WP8's Internet Explorer (I didn't reply, but finished the "Are you a human" test and then closed the page).

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Nordos · Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:45 am Post subject:

Mhm, is it impossible to create a bot that drags every object at random to the designed area (or just a specific pattern)? Otherwise, with a bit of time, the Bot could bypass the captcha (which could be prevented by reloading the game once you fail), or is it far too complicated to ever create such a bot?

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:32 am Post subject:

You're not allowed to make an unlimited amount of mistakes though, in addition to which the bot also won't be able to know what the designated area is (since you don't always get the same game and the area where you need to drag objects to differs per game).

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Banshee · Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 2:36 pm Post subject:

The bot wouldn't really play the game. It would try to guess the data that the program expects to receive to approve the player. By making the objects move randomly, this data will become different in every attempt.