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Answers to security questions
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Thu Mar 07, 2019 5:48 pmby TheLaw
Due to a recent influx of spam bots, I've decided to change the registration process to include security questions with intentionally wrong answers. Below is a list of questions and their corresponding answers.
Q: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A: What's a woodchuck?
Q: What's 9 + 10?
A: 21
Q: Big Brother is watching. 2 + 2 = ?
A: 5
Q: Rose is to bouquet as forest is to ____
A: apple
Re: Answers to security questions
Posted:
Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:47 pmby zayanimadara
nice idea
Re: Answers to security questions
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Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:10 amby HomerS
Thank you very much for removing all the spam postings and cleaning up the forums. The forums are once again a warm and friendly place to visit.
-Homer S.
Re: Answers to security questions
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Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:02 pmby Terminator
Thank you for making the game forum look better
Re: Answers to security questions
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Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:22 amby eagleeye
It does not work
Re: Answers to security questions
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Wed Mar 27, 2019 4:27 pmby TheLaw
Yes, I've noticed. My hands are somewhat tied as to what I can do without BadBoy.
Re: Answers to security questions
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Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:13 pmby HomerS
How about doing what we do for the PotW clan forum. Keep the puzzle solution answers as false answers, and only tell people in-game the solution that works. And tell people who play that they should tell other people who are playing. Do not publish the answers on the forum. That way, only people who play know the answers. That completely eliminated the spam registrations in the PotW forum, while allowing legitimate people to get accounts. Before that, I was deleting about 10 new spam accounts every day.
Re: Answers to security questions
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Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:42 pmby SyED
still have spam posts, and cant delete spam posts anymore.
Re: Answers to security questions
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Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:40 pmby TheLaw
Can't delete? Hmm, lemme see what's wrong.
Edit: Should be fixed now. I don't know why the permissions changed.
It sounds like a cool idea to set the in-game server messages or a in-game chat command to give the answers to the security questions. Unfortunately, I can't do much until BadBoy logs back on since I don't have control over the server.
Re: Answers to security questions
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Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:51 amby HomerS
TheLaw wrote:It sounds like a cool idea to set the in-game server messages or a in-game chat command to give the answers to the security questions. Unfortunately, I can't do much until BadBoy logs back on since I don't have control over the server.
I wasn't talking about an automated message, although that is an excellent idea. I was talking about players telling other players the answers when somebody asks how to get past the security questions when trying to register. That is what we used to do.
-PotW HomerS