[smirkley]

That is odd to me. I have my website up 9+ years and have been literally hammered by spammers and trying to block them every day.

Up until which I installed this mod.

My setup:
Really Fast Registration by BOP installed
Change registration filename by BOP installed
Allow registrations - vb OEM - turned OFF

What this configuration allows is that :
any bot will not find if looking for register.php...
If the bot is programmed to find the registration page then it will just get the error page with registrations turned off...

It ends up like a honeypot, at least for me.

That said the occasional human can figure out how if they want to spam. With that I have denied access of most IP's owned in China,Vietnam, Russian Federation and India using entries in my htaccess file. (I do not cater to these countries anyway so I am not missing out on desired traffic.

Result of several months of RFR,... only one human spammer, quickly snubbed manually.

It has been so much easier for me now to manage spam.

edit to add- I do have q&a still setup for things like the Contact Form.