CharlesM Posted January 17, 2010 Report Posted January 17, 2010 It took three attempts to register, due to the image recognition process in place here. I started to just fore go registering. More legible images would be an improvement. Quote
Tony Posted January 17, 2010 Report Posted January 17, 2010 The problem is spambots we have no images the forum is flooded. We've played around with various captcha's you really cannot win. It's either difficult to read or it's easy for bots to get by and we're banning users every hour for spam. Quote
CharlesM Posted January 17, 2010 Author Report Posted January 17, 2010 The problem is spambots we have no images the forum is flooded. We've played around with various captcha's you really cannot win. It's either difficult to read or it's easy for bots to get by and we're banning users every hour for spam. The single best thing that I did to avoid spambot registrations, and consequently spambot postings, when an admin on a vBulletin based forum, was to implement a single question in the registration process, one that asked a simple question, such as 2+5=7. It was added in the User Profile Field. Quote
Tony Posted January 18, 2010 Report Posted January 18, 2010 The single best thing that I did to avoid spambot registrations, and consequently spambot postings, when an admin on a vBulletin based forum, was to implement a single question in the registration process, one that asked a simple question, such as 2+5=7. It was added in the User Profile Field. Just realized it was set back to GD images I set it back to recaptcha which is much better for users and stops bots very effectively. Switched it to test something on our web server and forgot to switch it back. No wonder it was hard to read the text. Thanks for pointing it out. Quote
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