[lazytown]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

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Makes it REALLY hard to automate a response!

This is an awesome mod, and I might install it. However, if enough forums install it, it might easily be bypassed. Spam software can be changed to just search any page's html for the word "register" and the associated link, and use that url instead of the hard-coded one they use now. Then our next weapon/step would be to obfuscate the link (using javascript, etc), and then the spammers would eventually find a way to bypass that, but not as easily. However, the more difficult we make it the better, and as long as everyone isn't using this, it might last quite a while.

I had a question about using google analytics funnels/goals to track registration completion. Register.php is in my goal path (it's the trigger), and I think this mod would permanently break analytics being able to track percentage of registration completions (attempts vs success, etc). However, it's still probably worth it.