roddy Posted September 16, 2019 at 09:49 AM Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 09:49 AM If anyone's in China and has five spare minutes, could they try 1) Disconnecting any VPN 2) Opening this or any other on-site link in a private / incognito window (so you appear logged out) 3) Clicking the 'sign-up' button and registering a dummy account (maybe prefix the username with Dummy so I know who you are) with a disposable email 4) Let me know what happens. Trying a new way of spotting spam registrations, may or may not work from China. Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungouk Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:13 AM Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:13 AM I got "You did not pass the security check. Please try again." (Although sending a test msg to the 10-minute mail address generated for me, my message bounced, so not sure if that's working anyway...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:20 AM Scrap that then. Ignore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:26 AM Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:26 AM Next question for people all around the world - does the 'jigsaw' style security check on the registration page https://www.chinese-forums.com/register/ (open in an incognito window if you're logged in) load reasonably quickly and let you move the pieces around? No need to actually submit to register an account this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:37 AM Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 10:37 AM Last to appear as page slowly assembled then about ten seconds just for the jigsaw ETA Moving pieces worked fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungouk Posted September 16, 2019 at 12:56 PM Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 12:56 PM Jigsaw thing garbled for me using Chrome on OSX. Doesn't look like usual Chinese equivalent of captcha. (Some images not loaded.) Oh, hang on... tried again with incognito mode... hadn't realised that there are multiple pieces to move, unlike the usual "slide this piece to the right" thing. Kind of worked on second attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted September 16, 2019 at 12:58 PM Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 12:58 PM Yeah, wasn't too obvious to me either at first look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted September 16, 2019 at 01:17 PM Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 01:17 PM it's a bit of a pain. The usual captcha service is provided by Google and inaccessible from China. The other options integrated into the software aren't great. And spam services tend to be very suspicious of anything coming from a Chinese IP, which for us is a little bit of a problem... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungouk Posted September 16, 2019 at 01:46 PM Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 at 01:46 PM 加油 Roddy! I'm sure we can all feel your pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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