The British Steelies Society

Too many spammers are getting around the ReCaptcha security in member registrations, so I think it's time to change things around a little...

One of the most successful methods of human verification is an easy Question and Answer. The answer shouldn't be one that is easily Googled (by easily I mean by bots, not humans) and preferably unique to this site, so for example :-

Q) Which in the following list is NOT part of a Pedal Steel Guitar? Leg|String|Lever|Screen|Neck

Was one I came up with quickly just to get it implemented. But as I don't know much about the subject, feel free to reply here with your own suggestion(s). The more questions there are, the better.

Don't make it too hard - genuine potential members, i.e. anyone with even a passing interest in Steel Guitar, should be able to answer it correctly.

Also, questions can have more than one correct answer, if need be.

One quick point - I'll remove any Q&As from this thread when (if) I use them in the actual registration process, as leaving them visible here would be counter-productive - a list of all the questions and their answers would be a bit silly to leave up, after all!

It's early days, but since implementing the Q&A challenge more than 24 hours ago, there have been zero spam signups.

For it to keep working, we need some more questions, though....

how about
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Jason Lynch wrote:how about
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Thanks, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm after (although maybe a little hard as I'm not 100% sure myself).

Keep them coming

Keep 'em coming

P.S. Please post (or bold) the correct answers as well - I do websites, not PSG .

Thanks again but remember, I need the answers, guys! I'll delete them from here once I've taken them...

Also, my fault for not specifying but questions should be either multiple choice or in the format: -

"Grass is to lawn as _____ is to forest" (A - tree)

leaving no room for ambiguity...or if there are mulitple possible correct answers give me them all

I've removed all submitted Q&As from this thread and taken note of them - thanks again.

Keep them coming, though...since implementing this almost two weeks ago there hasn't been a single spam signup so it obviously works, but to continue working the question "pool" has to be updated on a regular basis.

Good work, I have noticed the difference in the last fortnight & have only just seen this thread