[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by oldengine

Thank you for the above reply as I was wondering there for a bit. I am very much aware of bots, thank you.

I never see many of the bots because what I am doing more or less works. The built-in math questions have done very well, but there are a few crazy bots from Korea and Japan that must do some manual intervention to get through. The total number of bots that are out there that we never see must be overwhelming.

I'll mark this installed and keep watch because you never know when a quake will happen. In the end, I think we are all stuck with manual approval.

Ozzy and I have secured many vB installations against spam including our own sites, and these installations get no spam. And they are secured without any moderating of new accounts, pictures, puzzles, games, nothing to annoy legitimate registrants. And all stealth, with no evident human verification and no "gotcha" messages for the spammers.