SMF spambots

[Kase]

Hey there!

Lately I've been having many problems with these annoying spambots which seem to be attacking my forums everyday.

I tried installing reCAPTCHA but that hasn't helped at all. Any ideas?

[eyaf]

Make registrations with admin approval only or Email activation, or you even can create some questions, if they answer it, they're not bots, PM me if you're interested/don't know how. I can help I guess.

[Kase]

Yeah, I've added admin approval, that's the only way for now. They could get through email activation, somehow. Thanks!

[eyaf]

Sure, you're welcome =D

[Danny]

Something a friend of mine did was make it so that your first post had to be in the 'introductions' forum. That doesn't stop them completely, but most bots only post once and it limits them to this one area.

[Munch]

I just made a couple tweaks to the site so the security should be a bit better. Now users will be asked if they're a Kase fan. There's no answer though, but I could change it so they have to say yes.

Kase, was email activation selected before you changed it to admin approval? If not that should help, and it'd be better than Admin approval. That'd require our own judgement...which may not be as good as the email activation thing.

[Kase]

Yeah, I checked it, I'm sure it was activated... They got through it somehow. And thanks @ tweaks! 

[FateTrip]

Hey there!

Lately I've been having many problems with these annoying spambots which seem to be attacking my forums everyday.

I tried installing reCAPTCHA but that hasn't helped at all. Any ideas?

Should have just told me lol

[Kase]

Should have just told me lol

You could say I could tell you! : (((

[FateTrip]

You could say I could tell you! : (((

I'm always around, just poke me if you ever need me. Don't be afraid, I don't bite! :7