[Simon Lloyd]

Originally Posted by Dj Smuggla

It's to stop spam bots from posting, i dont want to add captcha.

I can only think of the 'New Thread' button in the forumdisplay template, any other edits i need to do.

Haven't you implemented any anti-bot measures? are guests allowed to post? what amkes you think that the link for the button won't be crawled sooner or later and posting begins again? if your sites insecure posts can be made via a script which would use datamanager and doesn't use that file.

It would be best for you to actually use some sort of guarding, maybe even make new registrations only able to post in one forum where all posts are moderated, then use the promotion system for all users who have 1 post or more to get moved to the next usergroup who can post anywhere (with permissions you set), that way when they post in the one moderated forum their post count will remain zero until admin or mods moderate the post and accept it, then their post count is one and when the permissions cron runs they'll be promoted and can post

That way you haven't added any mods, not added captcha or human verification (which IMHO you should use) and are still protecting your forums