I've got a list of 50,000 ip addresses of spammers and about 10,000 email addresses ill send to u if u wanna add them to the user banning option

Thanks for the offer hopefully that sort of thing wont become a major issue here; so we will deal with the trouble makers if and when they come...

Thanks for the offer hopefully that sort of thing wont become a major issue here; so we will deal with the trouble makers if and when they come...

All vbulletin boards are targeted by profile "silent spammers" they dont even need to post and the site can end up getting blacklisted for spam. Since I added them to my blocked list I get 1 registration attempt per week instead of 100, just saves time having to moderate users etc.

All vbulletin boards are targeted by profile "silent spammers" they dont even need to post and the site can end up getting blacklisted for spam. Since I added them to my blocked list I get 1 registration attempt per week instead of 100, just saves time having to moderate users etc.

Yes I agree bot registrations are an issue with most forum/community suites well aware of them...

Can bots get around the CAPTCHA tests these days?

Andre

Can bots get around the CAPTCHA tests these days?

Andre

Oh yah .... easily.

I like the idea of the image content recognition systems (you know, click only on the thumbnail photos that feature a cat, for example) but getting a large enough image library to keep the pictures random would be a challenge.

Andre

What we did at my day job is add a human verification question. We just added one non-standard question to the registration and required it. Bots don't know the question or how to answer it. This has taken our spam registrations down to almost nothing!