[phacemeltar]

thers been some spam posts recently, not sure if this is anything new for you guys here.

someone mentioned that using captcha would be a way to prevent this kind of behaviour, but i disagree. captcha is a huge pile of horseshit that has been spread ALL OVER THE INTERNET. i absolutely hate it. FKN MICROSOFT made me do captcha just to activate my local user account. when i have to do captcha, i slam my head against the keyboard until it finally works.

instead of captcha, i think there are alot of other alternative methods that could be used. one of these would be an activation process, which requires one to enter some validating info into a form. you could put all kinds of things in the form, like IP address, in-game character name, whether you prefer your cats dead or alive, etc.

i mean, if necessary i dont mind spending 20 minutes working on captcha to get access to an online forum, but the concept is very unimaginative and i think there are many better ways to achieve a similar level of security.