My personal site is similar to this one in which we have an area where users 'offer' something to the public. We get users who sign up to the site and immediately go to post up something to offer. When we used to moderate users, that would cause a big problem in that forum. So, I'm with Floris on this in that I hope there are no restrictions put on new users.

(I have no idea if they have something like Is Bot installed here, but if not, that really helps on my site.)

There are no plans for such a restriction.

Yay

How about a custom question on signup? Suprised you dont use that as it stops bots in their tracks. But it also keeps total signups to a website down to realistic levels. Some sites want the large numbe of 'members'.

Custom questions are not a feature of vb3.6. When we upgrade then we will almost certainly make use of them.

Well, how about using a NoSpam! or some of the anti-spamming mods that people donate to vB.org?

Just use Captcha or some basic No Spam human verification when registering.

This is a simple problem to solve.

How about just add the custom question with a simple mod? That's why this is a MODIFCATION site, albeit one that seems too scared to add actual mods or even upgrade to a modern version of vBulletin.

Hmmm, actually, we have 4 custom files containing mutiple custom functions as well as 13 products, consisting of 158 plugins (it was more, Ive combined some) and over 70 custom templates .... more than most sites i would say. ;)

That's awesome lol. It'd be awesomer if they were able to be all put into plugins though :P