When you try to post a backslash, the character gets swallowed up. This makes it hard to include the Quake literal for a newline character in a string, as I tried to do in a post on using info_command_spawn. I guess it might be sanitation or html parsing getting confused. Is there any workaround possible, like allowing use of the html entity &92; 

based on previous bug reports, it was only the preview function that would steal your slashes.

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i forgot my pw long ago.

LOL

Admins, please, reset MFX password. 

Someone from Facebook is getting an error 71. Can anyone help? 

ah... that means they have the same IP as a previous spam post.

I could relax that rule, maybe block IPs only for a week or something. 

okay, i disabled that check, tell that person they can try again now. 

Do we need a captcha for anonymous users or something? this spam is getting out of hand. 

 

It''s getting quite annoying. 

This one is pleasant to use and free! I'm not sure how you use one on a site, but adding it to the register page and the posting page for anonymous users would probably help stop spam quite a bit. 

Just use a simple security question. 

Is it? I mean, that's the version offered by google, of all people. 

I looked it up, it does seem to be broken. Still, it seems like it would be a sufficient barrier to entry for the no doubt low-effort spammers we have right now. I feel like a security question would be easier to target for them, would it not?

In other words, why use something that's even more broken than something else just because that thing is broken?

Also, would the bots (I assume) that target this site be purpose built? I mean, we're not running on vBulletin after all. 

"Is it? I mean, that's the version offered by google, of all people."
Yeah, and Google would NEVER want to compromise your security, right...? 

I'm pretty sure if Google wanted to compromise someone's website they'd have better ways to do it than captcha. Well, I'd hope so. It'd be kind of sad otherwise. 

They've already shown the extent of their will to spy on your privacy, I don't think they give a shit about any other's security but their own. 

Why do we even allow anon posting anyway? 

Exactly, why?
(people using Tor will start to cry in 3... 2... 1...) 

why don't i start by bringing back error 71. I don't think that guy from facebook ever came back. 

error 71 check is back.

The reason to allow anonymous posts is to lower the bar to entry for outsiders who have something legitimate to offer. E.g. someone from another community who wants to just drop in a link or some info, but it's not worth it to them to make yet another account on yet another website to do so.

As for hiding spam entirely from users once flagger, i agree that it should happen. The one tricky part of that is also hiding it from the "New X" links on the forum page. Right now what would happen with 7 new spam posts is that you would see "New 7" and then click through and see zero posts and get confused. But i could still do it that way now and hide the "new x" links later. 

And make a news post to warn the members that "missing" posts are blocked spam. 

What's the error 71 thing, out of interest? 

it's when your IP address matches that of a previous spam post