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-1 Consequences of forgetting to tick the box: I have to log in again next time. Consequences of forgetting to untick the box: If I'm on a shared computer, I'm still logged in. One is annoying, one is dangerous. Are forum administrators really using auto login? I have it set in my sessions code so ...

I'm not too familiar with POP or other ways to access emails sent to a server, but in an ideal environment they could setup a pipe to a script we build (not sure how common that ability is however). I don't know what you consider a "large number of users", but because this requires mailse...

-1 Consequences of forgetting to tick the box: I have to log in again next time. Consequences of forgetting to untick the box: If I'm on a shared computer, I'm still logged in. One is annoying, one is dangerous. Are forum administrators really using auto login? I have it set in my sessions code so ...

I prefer to have documentation included with the software program, and I prefer it in these formats, which I enumerate here in descending order of preference:

- plain text files
- HTML
- PDF

As far as a general-purpose solution, yours is probably best since it probably wouldn't require retraining for each target site, as mine would.

However, I have a suspicion that most sites using Q&A have only one question, and once you've got the answer to that question... it's bombs away.

I think that careful wording of questions can make automated lookup of the answer more difficult. For example, notice that my "question" was actually a statement then followed by a very short question that referred back to the statement without repeating any of the key terms. It should be ...

I think that we should ask the administrators to provide one or more knowledge-based questions. All of these string- and mathematics- based, automatically generated questions, are no good in my opinion, because I think that they would require more brain-power from the user than would a knowledge-bas...

I don't think that asking the admin to come up with some questions and answers is such a burden.

As a forum administrator, he is already tasked to invent the names of some forums as well as descriptions for those forums.

Here are stats pulled from a phpBB 2 forum that I host. The forum is very conversational (read: completely non-technical) and it has 586,662 posts as of this writing. 98% of posts were never edited. SELECT COUNT(post_id) as total_posts, post_edit_count, (SELECT COUNT(post_id) / (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM...

nickvergessen wrote:Because when captchas are broken or you cant solve them (blind) you still need to be able to contact the admin, to tell him captcha is broken or you are blind and cant solve?

So then you're going to have to whois the domain and pray that the contact email address is valid and monitored.