Why doesnt question and answer at registration stop spam registrations.

[Simon Lloyd]

I've had my site now for a little over 3.5 years and i have a total of 108 spammers, they were all human as i use Q&A, my questions change every 6 months, i use vb3.8.7 (always upgraded but will never upgrade to the beta they call vb4), i do have bad behaviour installed and vbstop forum spam, but both are just set in logging mode they do nothing to the user, so i guess with that plain old Q&A that vb supplied i've had on average 30 human spammers a year, not bad eh?

I know you dont want to believe it but one of your signed up members is either a spammer or given the secret answer to a spammer, if you dont want to use Q&A why not install a picture Q&A, you know how it goes "click on the cat" and you have to click the correct pic, if you right click the pic and check the properties they're named something like 1zY5xoo234.jpg so no clues for the automated bot, only humans can get past that.

At the end of the day you will NEVER stop human spammers, thats the joys of being a forum owner.