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Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'UTC/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/phpbbev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 43

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'UTC/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/phpbbev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'UTC/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/phpbbev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 35

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'UTC/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/phpbbev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 43

Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'UTC' for 'UTC/0.0/no DST' instead in /home/phpbbev/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 43

Bots & Spam

We are very concerned about the problems bots and spam cause for our users.  I think we can all agree that its a problem that no one likes.  No one wants posts on their site for WOW gold or porn.  Yet we all have to deal with it at some point.

With that in mind we have implemented a few things to help stop that.  First we have changed the user profiles to no longer allow anything but a root url.  So http://www.mysite.com is valid.  But http://www.mysite.com/index.php?ref=12323416 isn’t.

We also are no longer allowing any urls in location, occupation, and interests.  Spammers were using those areas to increase the links to their sites.

Finally we have added 5 simple random math questions to the registration screen.  Don’t worry they only have to answer 1 of those five, which one is also picked at random.  This will hopefully slow down the bots a bit.

Obviously none of these is going to stop spam completely.  But we are trying our best to help.

– Technocrat

2 Responses to “Bots & Spam”

  1. Clawjaw says:

    Fantastic! Nice work for helping us :)

  2. Ceaser says:

    Also, Tech has added inputValidator, one of his creations, which has security features to protect against hackers too, since nobody likes hackers either.

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