How about making the creation of new Discussion Threads work the same way as the News Threads?
So newbies would not create useless new threads. 

^ with moderator approval I mean. 

maybe i just need to post some guidelines on the new thread page. 

i just posted with the title "frame" "1" in worldspawn in the doom3 mapping help thread and it left the title blank. 

did you preview it? It seems to work fine if you don't preview it. If you do, then yeah, it erases that part of the message. 

or just use two ' 

http://img.waffleimages.com/0a6d513759567f7f234cfcc2666e0fe636172f1f/auto_spam.gif

^^ Do you think they're creating accounts automatically or are they going to the trouble of doing it by hand? Might be something to look into 

now there's the title of someone's next map :P

blitzsp2: Rabbit Vibrator 

i was just going to say we should leave rabbit vibrator. :P 

i was just looking at those dummy accounts recently. It seems like they're created automatically, but the bots suprisingly did a good job of putting the email, the URL, and the password in the right place. Maybe the bot reads the names of the form fields. 

i added a new layer to spambot protection. It compares the IP address of a post with an IP address in the original form, which would match only if you actually got served the form at the same IP, which may not be true for spambots. 

Been getting an "ERROR: Error message number 42" in nice flashy red when trying to post this morning, worked after 2 more tries though. 

hmm, might be becuase you had a cached version of the page you were posting to? That error should only occur if you try to submit from a different IP than the IP that you requested the thread from... which should never happen unless you're a bot, or if you had the page cached from a previous session maybe....

anyway, let me know if the problem ever comes back. 

metlslime u should add a who�s online :) and privet msg ;)

if u need help shot! 

check the FAQ page 

roulf never notest that :) first time i enter that area in page :) 

Dear god (metlslime), please ignore that request. Func is so great because it is reduced to pure functionality of a forumboard. Everyone is easily contactable via the profile (or with a post in GA).

privet messages would be funny though. :P 

Ah, right, well no actually, I dunno how it's done, but my IP seems to jump around every minute or so while I'm at work, guess I'm a bot. =)

Got it again 4 times when posting this, hehe. 

hmm, this is troubling. I may have to disable this feature if people's IP addresses change within a single web-browsing session.

Does anybody else have the problem Bal is having? 

If it's limiting spam, keep it, I only have the problem at work, and I'm sure it's cause our net connection is weird somehow (I also have problems on classic php forums, sets all messages to read every minute, hehe).
I only posted here in case it was abnormal, it doesn't really bother me. 

if your IP keeps changing, doesn't that break a lot of web services? Like, you click on a link to request a page, but then your IP changes, so the server sends the page to the old IP, and you never get it? Or IRC, how does that work if your IP keeps changing? How does the data even get to you? 

And he's French, and you can smell him many miles away.

^_~ 

.. keep cool please.... 

Phait was refering to delicious cheese products Bal keeps on hand for guest, right Phait? MMM, Guda melted in an onion roux spread on some toast would be great 'bout now. Can be smelly, but damn good. 

Well I get disconnected from irc quite often, not that I come on a whole lot while at work =), web works fine otherwise, dunno...

By the way, I don't like cheese, and I don't drink wine, so scientifically speaking, it's kinda hard to say I'm really french. =(