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Originally Posted by Octavius.

Nah. Security Question and Answer fixes that easily.

For instance, ask a spam bot a random question like:

'Name of member with ninja avatar'

and it can't answer. If it's a person who joins just to spam, they'd have to do some searching first. Most spammers don't have time for that so they'll give up.

for automated attacks, you're right.
For attacks directed specificly to your forum, this might be one less barrier.