[fjeans1]

A series of 6 random Q&A Human Verification Options (industry related to forum purpose)
VB Bad Behavior (checks for mischievous scripts)
Spambot Stopper (if a bot fills it out too fast, it will reject)
Glowhost Spam-O-Matic (Checks email and IP against known spammer blacklists. Make sure you DONT have the username checking enabled)
Mandatory custom fields (industry related, for verification)
Once email verified, they're moved to a temporary group. Then the mods manually move them to their final security group, and send them a personal welcome email. (based on membership status to our trade org)

just my opinion it better to add more random question if you use question alone without captcha ,but that are nice list out there for defend against spam ,well even vbulletin is secure and tested against variety of attack it still better to add one or two defend for hacking attempt as well

Mandatory custom fields (industry related, for verification)
Once email verified, they're moved to a temporary group. Then the mods manually move them to their final security group, and send them a personal welcome email. (based on membership status to our trade org)

sound like nice trick that i can consider trying to add to my forum as well i think you did pretty much well on defend against spam but there will still be cases when pple do the spamming manaully by hand for those who didnt have the tool so one or two case of bypass is normal so no worry bro


not sure if it useful but so far i follow some tip in removing forum version as people will check for specific possible attempt on google depend on your version ,and secondly i changes the admin and mod cp path