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Old 01-08-2011, 06:27 PM
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I had over 100 spam bot registrations yesterday! I guess they finally broke reCAPTCHA™... Time for Question & Answer Verification!
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Old 01-08-2011, 06:33 PM
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Yep - http://www.allspammedup.com/2010/01/...ptcha-cracked/

We switched over to Q&A about three months ago when we noticed an increase in Spam. We hardly get any now.
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Old 01-08-2011, 06:33 PM
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I just cleaned up someones board that had right under 200! What a mess

--------------- Added [DATE]1294518848[/DATE] at [TIME]1294518848[/TIME] ---------------

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...70#post2146070

wow
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How many questions are you guys using? I added four... Think I should add more?
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noticed in the past 2 weeks, ive been getting my question/answers cracked in a day. Whats going on?

Are they having humans answer our questions and uploading the answers, plus our sites registration link on some sort of spammer database they all share?
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Just had two registrations since changed to Q&A and posted this... I'm sure they are spammers. Human I guess? uggg
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We went from Q&A to capcha a while ago, looks like I may have to move back. Got a large increase in bot registrations this week.
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I use these two and they work pretty good
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248042
http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5060
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I wish I get bots D:

Usually, I make all new users become active before they are put into a new group which gives them more benefits. They have a limitation of characters before they submit. Once they hit a certain amount of post + activity on the board. They will be taken automatically to a new usergroups. However, we have staffs that reviews the board to ensure they are not spamming to gain the status.

Example: They may only use up to 400 characters and must have an average of 5 posts per day. An average of 30 minutes active out of an hour without being idle as well.

Usually, when you get mad bots. They intend to post non-sense.
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How many questions are you guys using? I added four... Think I should add more?
I have 12 Questions and Answers. More is better.
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