Whats your best way to stop spam
 

For some reason my site is getting about 10 new spam bots a day and I am trying to figure out how to stop them, most have not posted but i was checking the names and all of them had ad banners in their signatures. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
Lance

Why you don't use captcha? Just use reCaptcha or the GD-Library. It's all already build in on vB software.

i am using the Enhanced Image Captcha and they are still getting in

I use Human Verification. I add a handful of questions I make up and set an answer. Simple questions that anyone can answer but bots can't understand those questions.

Also, I've added a gender field in their profiles that is required during registration. I made it a pull down list. Again, bots can't do a pulldown. or so I'm told.

I would advice you to restrict newly registered user to post links