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Originally Posted by EyeintheSky57

My question

Is this what everyone does? Can someone suggest a better way?

We were using ReCaptcha, then around the beginning of Jan. we saw a big increase in spammers and it seems like a lot of other sites did too, and the rumor was that a bot had been developed to get past ReCaptcha. At the suggestion of someone here we switched to Question/Answer verification and that reduced 'spammer' registrations from 100/day to around 10/day. I've been changing the questions occasionally and it seems to make no difference, so I've been assuming these are real people as opposed to bots. Most of them are just putting links in the profile so it's not a big deal, we clean them up occasionally.

But you say you've got an additional Image Verification so I don't know if you would see the same decrease we did. Also, someone asks this same question periodically and people usually recommend some mods, but I don't remember what they are. You could try searching this subforum, or else maybe someone will answer it again here.