Spam out of control: Q&A ineffective

[Panzer Max]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Have you tried registering at your own forum and seeing if you can either just click through any of the questions or enter rubbish and still get through?

Of course, and it does not allow registration when trying rubbish or variations of the proper answer (ex: "Tiranta" instead of "Tirante"). Good suggestion, though.

Originally Posted by vijayninel

That is exactly what is happening. People underestimate the number of human spammers out there.

You know that persistent mobile phone spammers here on vb.org ... they are all human spammers.

Yeah, it must be human, or there's something really wrong with the Q&A sceme. I worry that, because the answer of the Q&A is in the vB options, there's some way that a bot can find the answer and supply it to the Q&A. Has anyone checked that? Like I said, wow, it's hard to believe humans are googling an obscure WWII submarine question to sign up to the forum, when they are deleted within 2 hours every day.

Originally Posted by Andy

Here is what I do.

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...-on-your-forum

Hey Andy, yeah, your post is famous, it's where I began my anti-spam crusade. I used to use the Q&A ideas from it, but I have made it harder, as you can see in my original post. I have created a Custom profile field, I will make it "required during registration", very good idea, thanks.