Should this Forum allow anonymous posters?

[the_naming_game]

Found this.
Visual Confirmation for Guests

They use some manually operated patch format called "mod", but if you have telnet/ssh access to the server, here's a REAL patch. This is assuming a Unix-ish environment.

First:

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cd /path/to/phpBB2

then copy the following text into a file called "phpBB2-guest-confirmation.patch.base64"

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====

then:

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uudecode -o - <phpBB2-guest-confirmation.patch.base64 | gunzip | patch -p 0 --verbose --backup

delete the backup files if you're happy, and done. This patch was made using phpBB 2.0.20 as a reference. If you're a logged in user, it doesn't make you do the image thing. Also, you have to turn on the "Enable visual confirmation" option for it to work.

The patch is almost identical to the one at the link, except I made the test code case-insensitive -- there are only capital letters anyway.


NOTE

From my reading, apparently it's widespread knowledge that the image confirmation phpBB uses is easy for bots to bypass. It wouldn't be that hard to plug in a different image generator though -- just change the "usercp_confirm.php" file. In practice, it's a little more complicated, because many php installations don't have TrueType font rendering built in -- and a lot of php captcha systems rely on that.

[SubordinateFive]

No, this is slightly different.

A Wiki can be edited by anybody. As such, we appreciate anonymous (moderated) contributions—whatever moves the project along.

A forum, on the other hand, is primarily for discussion. Everybody should have to register so we know who said what. If for nothing else then for politeness.

Besides, Dogtato's right—it's not hard to register.

[onizuka-gto]

Found this.
Visual Confirmation for Guests

They use some manually operated patch format called "mod", but if you have telnet/ssh access to the server, here's a REAL patch. This is assuming a Unix-ish environment.

First:

Code: Select all

cd /path/to/phpBB2

then copy the following text into a file called "phpBB2-guest-confirmation.patch.base64"

Code: Select all

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====

then:

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uudecode -o - <phpBB2-guest-confirmation.patch.base64 | gunzip | patch -p 0 --verbose --backup

delete the backup files if you're happy, and done. This patch was made using phpBB 2.0.20 as a reference. If you're a logged in user, it doesn't make you do the image thing. Also, you have to turn on the "Enable visual confirmation" option for it to work.

The patch is almost identical to the one at the link, except I made the test code case-insensitive -- there are only capital letters anyway.


NOTE

From my reading, apparently it's widespread knowledge that the image confirmation phpBB uses is easy for bots to bypass. It wouldn't be that hard to plug in a different image generator though -- just change the "usercp_confirm.php" file. In practice, it's a little more complicated, because many php installations don't have TrueType font rendering built in -- and a lot of php captcha systems rely on that.

thank you. i will notify TLG about this and see what he'll say about it.

No, this is slightly different.

A Wiki can be edited by anybody. As such, we appreciate anonymous (moderated) contributions—whatever moves the project along.

A forum, on the other hand, is primarily for discussion. Everybody should have to register so we know who said what. If for nothing else then for politeness.

Besides, Dogtato's right—it's not hard to register.

Mind you, we still know who is posting, as even anonymous posters havee to put a username down before posting.....

[Da~Mike]

im british so the word "twat" is in the same group as "stupid" and "daft"

Likewise but according to my "internal dictionary", that isn't quite so true...
I can't remember when exactly I last openly called someone a twat (in a casual manner) but I believe it was when I was boarding during 6th form. I still remember my physics teacher having a go at me for that...

So no, I don't consider twat a word that can be used without sounding crude.

But yes, back to the topic, as mentioned already, why not give the anonymous posting a shot? Life ain't fun without experiments no? (contrary to my previous suggestion)

[onizuka-gto]

how about this, Format Guideline, this forum and general forum will have anonymous post/reply enabled.

As for the others, I will enable anonymous replies for the more popular forums, mainly, volume 01, 03 subforums.

Thius will be trial period, as i have seen quite a number of anonymous guest hanging around those places.

Everywhere else, will be free to view/read for registered users, but not necessary to post. :p

[HTML49]

yes!! it's a good thing!!!i like to put my comments down, but i won't be here all the time, and it's not like im not taking any responsibility. i still know who did it.

p.S: i like the funky code thing for anon posters.

[onizuka-gto]

obviously you know who posted, but we don't.



yup. i kinda like the visual code too.