Is there anything you can do to stop me getting logged out? I use lots of computers at home and work and at home I switch between a bunch of OSs too, so I am always getting logged out. Is there any way to keep the cookie or whatever valid on all machines or do I have to save password for this site? (I have that disabled normally so it only just occured to me) 

sounds like your browser are configured to delete the cookie. 

Isn't the FAQ wrong? Func doesn't need the referer, it's only looking for the cookie. 

yeah, i stopped needing the http_referer a while ago. forgot to update the FAQ.

regarding getting logged out, the cookie should last for about 2 weeks* from your last visit. So as long as you visit every 2 weeks with a specific device, you will stay logged in on that device.

*can't remember if it's exactly 2 weeks, but it's something like that 

Shouldn't logging out lead you to the main forum index instead of a blank page? 

logging in/out should just keep you on the same page (but it refreshes to indicate the new login state.)

I guess that feature does rely on the referrer, so if it's blank you won't go anywhere. 

With either Firefox or Opera. Just redirects me to the main site, cookie is set. 

FireFox works for me. Just FYI... 

Like internet explorer.

Anyway, Metl, is there anyway to stop these spam news submissions?? I'm having to reject them daily.

They're all signed with linseo34563blog (with varying numbers) so could you auto-reject linseo*****blog? 

a simple captcha? 

There's one captcha that just asks you a simple math question to prove that you're human (like, what's 8 + 3?). Those are WAY less annoying than the impossible to read text based ones, IMO. 

Bots might learn to decode a captcha, but never a "8 + 3" question. 

the math captchas are nice, or some simple Quake-related questions. 

 

Captchas might not prevent this kind of spam, humans are cheap to rent over the internet. 

Well, humans won't be stopped no matter what so there's no point worrying about that. But if you can give the bots a few stumbling blocks it would seem worth it. 

if the question is Quake specific, I doubt that hired humans will be able to answer correctly. 

i might see if i can do a better job of blocking bots, but my guiding principle has been to make it easier for users, even though it makes it harder for moderators. So a captcha would make moderation easier but posting a news thread for users less easy.

Right now there's some simple javascript that you need to run in your browser to post, the original idea was that bots wouldn't execute it. If these are posted by bots, it must mean the bots are evaluating the javascript. So maybe i need to make it more complicated than just simple javascript. 

The link to Tronyn's reviews at Quaddicted is wrong, it should be http://www.quaddicted.com/tronyn-reviews/ 

opening italics in post #5894, closing in #10778 in General Abuse 

Not sure if the other moderators have dealt with any. It's the same linseo****blog bollox, I think that should be blocked. 

i'll look at it tonight, if it's all one IP it should be easy to block. 

thanks for the report, it appears the problem is unclosed uppercase tags don't get closed correctly (my code was only scanning for unclosed lowercase tags.) Will fix soon. 

I can't get the RSS feed to load, is it down for everyone or is it something with just my machine? 

seems like there is a problem with the (R) symbol in the second news story (fruitz of dojo post.) I wonder if i need to do something to correctly HTML-encode symbols like that.