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what the heck is this?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:51 pm
by Happy Boy
i noticed that in the poster's info block to the right of the post text, for some users it says: "please do the math to help us avoid junk-messages"
...what is that all about, and how does me balancing my checkbook (doing math) stop spammers?
Re: what the heck is this?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:37 pm
by blacksunshineaz
I believe it's to prevent bots from registering with the site and spamming it. Sort of like CAPTCHA which you've likely seen on other sites.
Re: what the heck is this?
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:20 pm
by aleingang69
Yeah - sorry - that's a little bug that popped up when I updated the forums software - it isn't supposed to be there. I'll try to figure out why it's there!
Al
Re: what the heck is this?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2018 1:30 am
by Happy Boy
not a problem...i was just wondering if i was supposed to be doing something to fight spam that i didn't know about.