How to stop spam registrations?
 

On my forum, a lot of spammers keep registering spam accounts. They don't post anything in their signatures, but they do attempt to post spam on my site. How can I prevent that?

My forum version is 3.5.0.

Honestly the thing that seems to keep most spammers at bay is my random question(s)... I don't think that's part of 3.5 but it looks like you have the skills to program it if need be.

I had the same problem and I solved it with a combination of:

1. re-Captcha for registrations
2. StopForumSpam mod
3. Akismet

Can't be sure which of them is doing the best work, but the combination of them had a 100% success.

Maria

Do you mean that you have the SFS mode set up with Akismet, or are you using that a different way?

This is what I've:

1. vBulletin Settings-> Human Verification Manager: re-Captcha
2. vBulletin Settings-> Options-> Spam Managment: Akismet
3. and finally I've installed the StopForumSpam Module

Maria

I updated the forum to 3.8.5. What solutions are available for this version of the forum? Please link.

Ban them using a combination of methods such as blocking the ip number, username, email, believe me after a short while it puts a stop to the persistent spammers. A lot of this spam will be from spam bots which can be clever enough to deal with the question and captcha depending on the software used.