Registration Activation Quiz

I deliberately said that I wasn’t feeling adverse affects. How I know that for a fact? Well, because I’m not feeling it. It’s indeed all about perception.
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I was trying to suggest, that it might be possible that some negative effects you are feeling (or absence of some positive ones) and attributing to something else could theoretically be originating from people that simply just misunderstood what the quiz is for and you would never know. But…:

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I’m out! I’ve got more money to make for Cas.
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…that’s a valid solution too, of course, if you don’t have time to waste on discussing “potential minor optimization with unclear outcome”.

[quote]Thanks for the reminder. I almost would have fed this troll, which would have been a mistake.
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Close enough… but I think you still need to practice “Not feeding trolls”. You know - because comments like that technically qualify as “feeding the troll”. Just in case a real one ever drops by here who’s not just trying to give (unwanted xD but still good :P) advice while he’s waiting for his compiler to finish.

^ not sure why you’re riding this issue so hard when you’ve already made your point and there is an obvious disagreement where the only course of action is to move on.

I guess that’s why you’re starting to give off an aura of flame-baiting and trolling… a more sensible person would just move on.

Wow, what a very long discussion.

I have to admit, Riv, when I saw the activation quiz at first; I thought of it as an annoying hurdle to cross to be accepted into a forum. However, after passing the quiz, I found it to be completely in context since this is not a “gaming” forum, but more of a “game development” forum.

Game developers are actually supposed to be taking extra hurdles to progress. If you can’t do that, then how will you get good enough to solve problems. Inadvertently, Riv is just filling the forums with people he would want to associate himself with, and pre-screening the rest.

Now, that might seem like a bad thing because you are getting rid of “potentially” good forum members. However, with every 1 good forum member turned off by the message, the amount of bad ones turned off is significantly greater. Cuts down on a lot of spam, useless questions, and garbage threads.

It makes prominent residents of the forum feel better, and less prone to leave if the place is kept clean and tidy. Regardless of which members you don’t get, you always want to keep those members who are able to give meaningful feedback. It makes these forums a well structured library, instead of a corner pawn shop.

Maybe it just takes a little while to see “the big picture.” Great forums are inhabited by great people.

I know, but thanks for reminding me.
I guess sometimes I just don’t quit a discussion while there’s still something semi-relevant to answer to left because that’s sort of part of my job.

And don’t forget that the good people getting turned off will eventually come back when they’re more experienced.

I’m some-what glad the quiz is hard.

If we had members joining constantly none of us would get to show off our new projects, or get help on anything.

Plus, we would be fully spammed with “New to 3D”, “What library should I use?” and “Hey guys I’m new” threads.

Take a look at tigforums, for an example.

We are. Just less so than if we didn’t have the quiz.

At least the “I’m new to game programming. How to make MMORPG?” threads have disappeared lately.

So tempted to create this thread right now… >:-)

Wow, what a very long discussion.

I have to admit, Riv, when I saw the activation quiz at first; I thought of it as an annoying hurdle to cross to be accepted into a forum. However, after passing the quiz, I found it to be completely in context since this is not a “gaming” forum, but more of a “game development” forum.

Game developers are actually supposed to be taking extra hurdles to progress. If you can’t do that, then how will you get good enough to solve problems. Inadvertently, Riv is just filling the forums with people he would want to associate himself with, and pre-screening the rest.

Now, that might seem like a bad thing because you are getting rid of “potentially” good forum members. However, with every 1 good forum member turned off by the message, the amount of bad ones turned off is significantly greater. Cuts down on a lot of spam, useless questions, and garbage threads.

It makes prominent residents of the forum feel better, and less prone to leave if the place is kept clean and tidy. Regardless of which members you don’t get, you always want to keep those members who are able to give meaningful feedback. It makes these forums a well structured library, instead of a corner pawn shop.

Maybe it just takes a little while to see “the big picture.” Great forums are inhabited by great people.

And don’t forget that the good people getting turned off will eventually come back when they’re more experienced.

I’m some-what glad the quiz is hard.

If we had members joining constantly none of us would get to show off our new projects, or get help on anything.

Plus, we would be fully spammed with “New to 3D”, “What library should I use?” and “Hey guys I’m new” threads.

Take a look at tigforums, for an example.

We are. Just less so than if we didn’t have the quiz.

At least the “I’m new to game programming. How to make MMORPG?” threads have disappeared lately.

So tempted to create this thread right now… >:-)

The best method, that i have ever come across, for combating spammers has always been the ‘riddle picture’ method. Basically, you program a system to output a image (not text) that says something along the lines of 'the first letter in ‘Maddison’, the second letter in ‘box’, and blah blah blah.

Because it works similar to multiple captas, and because it tells you to look for a specific letter, so long as you have the image ideas generated at random (so they can’t be connected to the answer), it makes it impossible to bot though it.

The best method, that i have ever come across, for combating spammers has always been the ‘riddle picture’ method. Basically, you program a system to output a image (not text) that says something along the lines of 'the first letter in ‘Maddison’, the second letter in ‘box’, and blah blah blah.

Because it works similar to multiple captas, and because it tells you to look for a specific letter, so long as you have the image ideas generated at random (so they can’t be connected to the answer), it makes it impossible to bot though it.

I really think the current system is the best.
Its really hard for bots to solve, and it keeps the noobs out.

If you read through the thread the problem is not bots, the problem is human spammers that actually google for the answers. That must be a very giving line of work…

Mike

I really think the current system is the best.
Its really hard for bots to solve, and it keeps the noobs out.