Spam out of control: Q&A ineffective

[vijayninel]

Originally Posted by Panzer Max

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.

Even I used to think that all spam is posted by bots and was baffled as to how they can answer the complex questions I was framing. The only explanation that I could come up with was that some human was opening the door for bots to post spam. But I was wrong even there.

As I devloped more and more complex countermeasures to combat spam, I could see them resisting and trying to counter may antispam measures .. live. I literally had live battles with them. I even traced to where most of the human spammers come from - China, India and Nigeria.

In any case I finally won. I now know how to completely defeat all types of spam and despite all the efforts of all the spammers, they havent been able to post a single spam post on my forums for years. And no .. I dont moderate registrations or even ask new members to solve a captcha.

I hope to write a article on my experiences sometime.