I just thnk vbulletin should ship with multiple lines of defense. As it is right now, you can choose 1 form of spam prevention. I want to make it harder for spammers to get in, and harder for them to spam if they do.
New members should have to both answer a question and enter the captcha image text. After that, they should not be allowed to post links to other sites until they have x number of posts. They should also be limited to x number of posts per day until they reach a certain number. By the time a member reaches the post count where they can post links, you will have a pretty good idea if they are legit or not.
How do you set up both a custom question and the image? I have installed re-captcha to help thwart the bots but would like the added option too. Most of my spam came from humans as they go through the email verification but I know the bots will soon be on the way. I opened the forum this past week (converted from another board).
03-28-2009, 04:51 PM
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