spam

[sheyworth]

Is there a way to stop spam bots? I used image verification and question verification for when people register but I just got hit by a spambot last night...not sure if it was a spambot or a human because the email was a gmail account and usually spambots use really weird emails.

It helped with the post count though, got a 45 post count boost haha I moved them all to the trash so people cant see them but the post count stays and the user/spambot was banned.

Are there other ways to help reduce spambots and was this user a human seeing that the email was a gmail account?

[kh99]

We use Q/A and get probably 5-10 spammer registrations a day, I'm almost certain they are humans and not bots. I don't think there's a lot you can do about - it's a trade-off between making it easy to register on your forum and keeping out spam.

We have GlowHost Spam-O-Matic installed (the link is below), and that keeps out some by looking them up at StopForumSpam before allowing registration.