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Hey Gerard. Someone messaged me on another site saying that they can't create an account here, resulting in a fatal exception error. Can you look into this? Thanks.--'''[[User:Spaceeinstein|spaceeinstein]]''' 23:19, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey Gerard. Someone messaged me on another site saying that they can't create an account here, resulting in a fatal exception error. Can you look into this? Thanks.--'''[[User:Spaceeinstein|spaceeinstein]]''' 23:19, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
:The forums got updated but then everything else in the network went down. Eventually some sites in the network went back up but GTAModding is unfortunately not one of them. It seems like the modding community feels increasingly neglected there.
:If you're interested, I managed another wiki and got the same spammy account creations problem. I combat it by using the extensions ConfirmEdit and QuestyCaptcha. In the LocalSettings, I have something like this:
<pre>
require_once "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/ConfirmEdit.php";
require_once "$IP/extensions/ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha.php";
$wgCaptchaClass = 'QuestyCaptcha';
$arr = array (
  "Copy and paste 'gta gta gta gta gta gta' without the quotes:" => "gta gta gta gta gta gta",
  "Copy and paste 'gta gta gta' without the spaces:" => "gta gta gta",
);
foreach ( $arr as $key => $value ) {
  $wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' => $key, 'answer' => $value );
}
</pre>
:So when people want to create an account there, they must copy and paste the text into a text box before proceeding. The array can be expanded with more variations so bots won't easily predict what to put in. It's a simple system and I received no complaints from anyone compared to other methods I've tried.--'''[[User:Spaceeinstein|spaceeinstein]]''' 22:42, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
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