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Originally Posted by Opserty

Its quite funny I read an article on Captcha that was written just the other day: Captcha has failed: What next?

Its off topic I know but

You get the bots/spammers on every forum anyway. Just probably most other forums have either a moderation queue for new users or their moderators pick them up a lot quicker.

I don't like captcha either, partly because any decent captcha is a complete pain to use for human members, and likely easier for bots than humans. However, there are plenty of better anti spam techniques that aren't as annoying or useless.

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

Theese spammers are on many forums and still post wherever/whenever they can you just don't see it as much because admins are a little faster in getting to threads than they are on org. I know from experience my forum was flodded on a daily basis and I was forced to become unlazy and clamped down using spam prevention tactics and tougher registeration followed by link restrictions per post count amongst other stuff.

Just takes the hard working staff here a little longer to get around to it which results in members seeing alot more spamming threads though with the help of us dedicated members we are more than happy to use that dreaded report button even if it does get us into trouble every now and again.

I still think the problem could easily be solved. Ask a question or two about vBulletin (anyone who joins likely wants to know about or modify vBulletin, so it's safe to assume they'll have seen the .com site as well (like, 'What is vBulletin's slogan?' or 'What is the latest major vBulletin release?') Then maybe something like sending all posts tagged by spam keywords for new members to the moderation queue (like add iphone or such like to the list).