good post - Darn those spam bots

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Apexi

Sweet, and so simple. so should i deactivate captcha completely?

I never used the captcha. I use only IsBot and the random question, random question is set up like this:

All questions are merely long, convoluted instructions to copy and paste the entire question into the answer box. The answers are identical to the questions presented. For most all humans, this is a simple task. Impossible for bots. Most human spammers don't understand enough English to figure out what to do with it, and leave.

Those human spammers who do successfully register a account on my board find the account completely unable to PM anyone but admins, can't post links, can't post in visitor messages, can't post a signature or custom user title, essentially cannot spam at all. Until 20 posts. They just abandon the useless account.