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Savonarola wrote:Due to the abundance of spamming robots, FFForums uses measures to reduce the amount of spam that is posted on our boards. These measures may prove mildly difficult for some guests to circumvent without help.
Due to a change in software, the above anti-spam measures have now been changed. The anti-spam measures that now apply to guests are:
All guests will be required to answer the CAPTCHA question correctly when posting. A CAPTCHA is a string of characters obscured by visual interference; it is designed to be readable by humans but not by automated spammers.
Guests are no longer allowed to post URLs or images. This is an unfortunate but necessary change that is likely to severely inhibit the incidence of advertisement spam, which has become overwhelming despite other methods that have been implemented both behind the scenes and not.
I regret the inconvenience to our guest posters who responsibly participate on our forums.
I would like to encourage those guests to register as users. An email address is required when registering, but we do not currently check the authenticity of these addresses (partly because emailing via the forums has been disabled for your protection). There are a few anti-bot and anti-spam devices in place for registration and for newly registered (i.e. unconfirmed-as-human) users that can be read about here. There are additional features available to registered users, as well.
For those users who have registered but have continued to participate as guests for such an extended period of time that you have forgotten your password, email fayfreethinkers AT yahoo DOT com to have your password reset and sent to you.
It is my hope that these changes will result in an overall more enjoyable experience here at FFForums. Thank you for your cooperation.
--Savonarola, FFForums Mod@Large
