{"id":30,"date":"2012-07-28T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-07-28T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T12:44:57","slug":"forum-registration-re-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Forum registration re-opened."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within 12 hours of opening the new forum there were 30 spambot user registrations. This was with a captcha-style spambot registration prevention system in place! I had to temporarily turn off registrations while I looked into an alternate method of spambot prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is back on now, with a simple &#8216;name-the-screenshot&#8217; quiz which seems to be confusing enough for spambots to fail, but hopefully simple enough for any real people to pass.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Space Invaders\" src=\"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/registration-test\/image04.jpg\" alt=\"Pac-Man image\" width=\"282\" height=\"326\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you can name this game, you will be able to register.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 12 hours of opening the new forum there were 30 spambot user registrations. This was with a captcha-style spambot registration prevention system in place! I had to temporarily turn off registrations while I looked into an alternate method of spambot prevention. Registration is back on now, with a simple &#8216;name-the-screenshot&#8217; quiz which seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shmup-dev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}