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11-20-2008, 08:40 PM
Hi. Here is my forum... http://www.virginiahotlist.com .

This is my problem. I started this site for fun and to kinda direct people on things in Virginia or a place to complain about Virginia. All of a sudden in the past weeks I have been getting tons of new members every day. I do have a catcha on registration, but they are getting by it. I assume because it is a actual person registering. So what i did is I went to the control panel and now moderate every new member. However i am still getting these people joining.

Please help any advise... I was told to take the catcha off and initiate a auto question something like "What color is wood?" with a simple answer Brown. But I do not see any place in the admin control panel user registration options to do that...

Also Does anyone know ways to generate new members and getting them to post things??
KevinL
11-21-2008, 01:24 AM
This is all I see when I go to that link...and a whole bunch more...just code


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[email protected] vbmenu_register("postmenu_1670021", true);
11-21-2008, 01:11 PM
This is all I see when I go to that link...and a whole bunch more...just code


<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 12"> <link rel=File-List href="index_files/filelist.xml"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="index_files/editdata.mso"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--> <title>Virginia Hotlist</title> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Author>Shawn Hinckley</o:Author> <o:Template>Normal</o:Template> <o:LastAuthor>Shawn Hinckley</o:LastAuthor> <o:Revision>2</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>2</o:TotalTime> <o:Created>2008-03-17T03:15:00Z</o:Created> <o:LastSaved>2008-03-17T03:17:00Z</o:LastSaved> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>212</o:Words> <o:Characters>1215</o:Characters> <o:Lines>10</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>2</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>1425</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.00</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> </xml><![endif]--> <link rel=themeData href="index_files/themedata.thmx"> <link rel=colorSchemeMapping href="index_files/colorschememapping.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility>

Thanks Kevin. I am not sure what to do or needs to be done to fix it. What does not look right?? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated