Sometimes, I try to register on a forum and find out that my IP (really the VPN IP) has been blocked. Or I get hit by a recaptcha. Or I give an airmail and get hit by "admin has to accept your account". Only rarely can I actually register somewhere unopposed. Do you think it would be worth it to classify forums by how they treat registration?
I imagine there are many people (like me) who don't want to bother with any of the above and would just like to see a list of forums they can freely register on. I could start the list if there is a demand.
A list of forums who are trash is something I would approve of though.
Adrian Kelly
theparacast.com/forum/ - Requires solving ReCaptcha. paranormalis.com/ - Displays an error if given an AirMail (therefore requires real mail, but no manual activation). davidicke.com/ - Requires solving ReCaptcha. psiencequest.net/forums/index.php - Requires admin activation, and the cuck admin seems to ban all proxies (removed me twice with a different proxy). ketogenicforums.com - Allows registration with an AirMail (no manual activation). Does not ban proxies. But the first post (or maybe more than one) have to be accepted by admin.
Haven't found a good one yet.
Brandon Rogers
hellboundhackers.org/forum/ - Allows AirMail and proxies. Have to solve a few hacking challenges to be able to post.
Best one so far, I think.
Aiden Hughes
hackforums.net/ - Requires solving a ReCaptcha before even SEEING the forum, if using a proxy.
Zachary Flores
forum.salixos.org/index.php - There it is! A forum that doesn't bother you with anything. Allows proxies, AirMail and immediate posting.
Nolan Ward
Web forums? Nah, that's all dead pozzed fam. We do nntp, telnet BBS, and gopher now.
Easton Harris
Flip the categories; Category 1 should be ideal. Increase the number as restrictions go up.
Category 0 can be no restrictions at all/anonymous posting allowed.
By the way, I thought about setting up a site with accounts for forums that anyone can claim. So if you have a problem registering somewhere, just claim a ready-made account. Something like bugmenot, but you actually claim the accounts. What does Holla Forums think about this?
Guess what, this chan and lots of other places go through cloudflare, one of the key surveillance/tracking chokepoints that exist today (besides facebook & co.) So it doesn't make any difference, unless you're posting strictly to independent sites (no 3rd-party cloud layer) that have their own self-signed SSL and not a government-approved CA. But anyway, telnet BBS is just how it's referred to. You can of course wrap telnet with stunnel, but there again it's kind of dubious if you're using CA and not self-signed cert. You can do ssh BBS too. Anyway the main difference is that it's not the web, and can't be easily crawled by search engines, so it's more private. Also the interface is nicer than web stuff too.
Dylan Hill
bumpplz
Easton Ramirez
godlikeproductions.com - ReCraptcha if using a VPN. Otherwise, requires your fucking last name (probably can be faked, but still) prisonplanet.com - tried to register twice, the confirming e-mail never came. Probably they didn't like either my VPN, or my tutanota e-mail. forum.bettingadvice.com/ - does not allow registration with any free email, even gmail. Worst of the bunch. ubuntuforums.org/ - recaptcha linuxquestions.org/ - recaptcha
raypeatforum.com/community/ - "Sorry, you've been detected against the why ya hidin' database". Means they ban VPN. Fuck Off. Airmail banned, too. longecity.org/forum/ - Proxies banned. Recraptcha. Too bad, I love that forum. libertariansforum.com/ - have to give reasons for joining the forum? So no airmail then. stormfront.org/forum/ - requires solving "KeyCaptcha", that has dragging some pictures. Didn't bother solving it to see if they ban VPNs or airmail.
Benjamin Jones
So, my conclusions so far are: On over 90% of forums, we cannot fucking talk without submitting ourselves. Either they get our real IP, real e-mail (this is not that bad, I guess), or have to solve dehumanizing recaptcha. Only two forums so far satisfy all my criteria: the salix forum and pokecommunity.
Juan Martinez
I don't have a reaction image so you get Alex Jones instead.
Thomas Jones
Captchas are not just demeaning, they can also identify you by observing patterns in your responses.
Leo Rogers
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Nolan Sanders
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Luis Anderson
Disregard this, voat actually added recaptcha.
Cameron Watson
Здесь есть все, о чем вы только мечтали ______ megasto.com.ua/
Gabriel Hall
Nigger.
Jordan Robinson
Testing for human input is the purpose of all captcha. The idea is that robots are not allowed.
Ayden Jenkins
Also add these: - Chinese forum engine, everything is ass big emoticons, flags and glittering gold medals - Outdated web server without https
Adrian Young
I think I have to reconsider my position on wilderssecurity. The admin seems to have some problem. I posted two normal posts over a day ago and they are still unapproved.
I have a forum with free resignation and auto tempuser registration for lurkers, but I also ban proxies because there is a schizo among the userbase
James Lopez
Can't you ban his e-mail then? Or ban him by cookie or something?
Yeah, let's just stick to 8ch that is totally active...
Dominic Brooks
there is no email for registration
you set a username and password and that's it
I wish I knew how to do more client-side scripting shit but it's just a LAMP stack with PHP as most of my trashcode to apply avatars etc
Jaxon King
But you can set a cookie with PHP that has a unique user ID, and then check if it is the schizo's ID before letting him register.
Care to give a link?
Elijah Morales
bronnen.net I just kept adding features to vichan until it was a pile of cancer
Mason Long
Pssst....I just posted with a proxy.
Jason Green
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Jeremiah Morgan
a few thoughts: - who *doesn't* require recaptcha? and recaptcha is not a big problem, just solve it. Im aware, however, that recaptcha often has issues on tor/vpn ips. - what about places where they are really gay about their email policy; i.e. no sharklasers/mailinator/disposables, no cock.lis, etc? - SMS activation. screw that, this is why smspva exists.
Ian King
Recaptcha lets bots through easily. There are only 84 possible answers; all a bot has to do is fire off random guesses through a bunch of proxies. Its real purpose is to collect data ("the reason we're collecting your every mouse movement and keystroke is to use advanced risk analysis to determine you're not a bot, we promise") and empower Google to ban people they don't like.
James Turner
And no, it's not just on Tor/VPN IPs.
Matthew Lopez
9/10 Recaptcha fails for me. I end up saying "fuck it" and going elsewhere.
Dylan Brown
forums are a bastion of valuable information, or at least, they used to be before CuckOverflow flooded search engine results, and then every shitty "news" site flooded them with "7 bullshit things you don't want to fucking read and don't help you with your problem!"
