gobbly2100
01-10-2014, 07:06 PM
Hi folks,
I am in the process of cleaning up an old neglected vBulletin forum I used to run as a very active community.
I have already cleaned out 250,000 users awaiting email confirmation as they were all spam but the problem I seem to have is that the moment I open the forum to new registrations and enable the forum, I get a crazy number of bots register and start spamming like crazy.
I have recaptcha turned on for registration.
What are all the main suggestions for managing a vBulletin forum these days as I have not been using it for a couple of years now, is there anything out there that would make it easy for any spammers already registered on my forum and waiting to post?
I believe a lot of the spam bots have registered in the past before it was locked down enough and are now logging in when I enable the forum to spam like crazy.
I am using vBulletin 4.2.2 if that helps
Any help and assistance would be much appreciated!
I am in the process of cleaning up an old neglected vBulletin forum I used to run as a very active community.
I have already cleaned out 250,000 users awaiting email confirmation as they were all spam but the problem I seem to have is that the moment I open the forum to new registrations and enable the forum, I get a crazy number of bots register and start spamming like crazy.
I have recaptcha turned on for registration.
What are all the main suggestions for managing a vBulletin forum these days as I have not been using it for a couple of years now, is there anything out there that would make it easy for any spammers already registered on my forum and waiting to post?
I believe a lot of the spam bots have registered in the past before it was locked down enough and are now logging in when I enable the forum to spam like crazy.
I am using vBulletin 4.2.2 if that helps
Any help and assistance would be much appreciated!