[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Really?

That's a pretty lame excuse considering what the user experience is, as expressed in this thread.

Let's see what Jelsoft could add to vB, which won't be breakable by spammers.

- Time limit registration option (like "Is Bot")? A spammer doesn't know the limit I've set, so they can't fight that. And their scripts are tailored for speed, they won't wait 1 minute per registration.
- Checking of validity of email address. Not very efficient but it still traps spammers.
- Matching of entered Country with IP address Geolocation information. The ability to exclude some countries would be also welcome.
- Matching of entered Time Zone with the Time Zones of the country derived from the IP address?
- Check of registering IP address against known spammers IP addresses such as spamhaus.org or sorbs.net etc.

Care to tell me how a spammer would break through a spamhaus.org check?

One more thing: if Jelsoft thinks that an anti-spam strategy should include as many traps as possible (and I agree on that), how come it only offers one of Image Verification, Question & Answer Verification and reCAPTCHA?? Why not all? Let the admins select as many as they like.

1) Jelsoft hasn't been the owner/publisher of VB in years
2) Time plays no real factor in registration because they can hit multiple boards at once... Whether it takes 10 seconds to register or 60 on any one site is no big deal. So long as they set their delay equal to a human it is easily defeated
3) Again it would be minor edits to make sure timezone, location and IP match- the only reason these checks may work is because they are rare