Registration: Captcha question asks for Minetest version?

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Registration: Captcha question asks for Minetest version?

by rugk » Mon Jan 11, 2016 20:57

As I just registered in this forum I got this security question:
What version of Minetest came after 0.4.10?


Sorry, but by asking the user such things you effectively prevent users registering here, because you cannot expect them to know such things. Captcha questions should be easy.
I had to look at your GitHub repo to find the solution and afterwards I saw it was quite easy, but nowadays versioning is not very reliable and you cannot know whether a version number was skipped or such things.
So please ask better questions next time. :)

Edit: Forgot a "not" :)
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Re: Registration: Captcha question asks for Minetest version

by firefox » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:23

true, even if people do know how the numerical versioning works, there are lots of options.
another game that used this system once had version 1.10.5 followed by 1.10.5a and then 1.10.5b
so answereing 1.10.6 would be wrong in this case.
 

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Re: Registration: Captcha question asks for Minetest version

by TG-MyinaWD » Thu Jan 14, 2016 02:28

Aha I rememeber back, when I first join the, forums as (*CLASSIFLIED*) & this account the Forum script was punBB and the Question was, What Minetest spelled backwards. I did "Tsetenim" but it didn't work. so I tried something else known as Winetest. And it worked. Good times..

Anyway the question should be maybe easy todo & hard (Spambots). tbh There many Clawers/bots go though the, forums more then we do so I wouldn't be shock they do, something.
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Re: Registration: Captcha question asks for Minetest version

by benrob0329 » Thu Jan 14, 2016 17:45

On innovationplex.com I set up the question as a simple "Are you a spambot?" with the answer being a simple "no".

So far it has worked, but I may need to change it in the future.
 


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