A question to prevent spammers

[KopsTheTerminator]

I've seen some users who registered only to advertise something such as WoW gold. Well, I believe this will prevent some spammers:

A TLK related question. And to make it more unlikely for advertisers to join, a question about a minor characters such as Zazu.

I believe this will prevents spammers and advertisers. What does everyone think?

[LilTiger]

This might, but I'm not sure

[thanigraphics]

there might be members that love the movies, but are kinda new to it, or seen it only once and want to know more about it by visiting this forum.... and then they might not be able to answer the question :p

are there many spammers in here? I never saw one o.o

[LilTiger]

All the spammers have been deleted, so they can't be seen.

[CommandoTheLion]

hmm i seen some of these too O.o about Wow...... they all have random characters in there name like "nfw923mdw" o.o

[Simba]

well, some people are joining to upload art on MLKFAA. so far most of our FAA artists are familiar with TLK, but some people just merely like drawing the characters or drawing in that style. heck, there are some out there that just drawn their original characters that fit into the TLK realm. so they might not know enough about the movies to answer the question.

besides, there's not really too big a problem with spammers. they get deleted pretty fast.

[ScaЯ]

It's a good idea, but they could just go search for answers online. So it would have to be a timed quiz.

[Moka]

There are several anti-spambot methods out there including the obvious question/obvious answer that you suggested. The spammers are not humans by the way, they are programs that know how to register and post in a phpBB forum. The new version of phpBB will provide new ways to stop spammers. I want to see if the new way is good enough, or if we have to install some kind of anti-spambot utility

[KingKivuli]

there already is a anti-spam thing. me lol. ill admit i cant stop them getting on but s soon as i see them *poof* gone

[CommandoTheLion]

well unless you got some idiot creating account and spamming the crap out of the forums....
like ksfmswfkijwetj40934t in posts and trolls making abusive comments in other post well trolls tend to spam up the forum then they find out to hack into your database and sent nasty viruses
to your computer and stuff it up.....

i got hacked before and he sent a virus to my computer it screwed it up.