[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

The simple answer is because they exceeded the minimum time required by the add-on to be identified as human. Maybe that was because some of the bots have been reworked to compensate for anti-bit timers. Maybe it was because the bot swarm slowed down site response time enough that they met the crtiteria. I don't know.

But I can say that while the anti-bot timer certainly prevented a large number of spambot registrations for me, it didn't catch them all.

On the other hand, the effectiveness of the combination of the anti-bot timer and this add-on has been astounding so far.

I figured it might be.

Alot of people don't realize the timer add-ons are all page load time dependent. Terrible proxies the botnets usually use, and other factors can contribute to slow load times thus letting some autospam bots get registered.

Spam fighting requires layers of defenses and vigilance by site owners, for sure. It's not a casual undertaking.

What version of the timer add-on are you using? I'm still on the original v1.1.