ReD NeCKersoN wrote:moRtem wrote:Why don't you use a mod like "Anti Bot Question Mod".
We do. Apparantly, some spammers register manually then unleash their bots.
I somehow don't believe that a "little" Board like this is victim of human spammers.
Whatever anti-bot you use, it is important to provide custom captchas (e.g. spammers had still been able to circumvent the standard captchas [no matter how fancy] and questions of the antibot above).
Like i said, i myself just sprayed "nox" in mspaint and not a single bot was able to pass this barrier by now.
You are using custom (= selfmade) captchas ?
if you noticed, the spammers register, then dont post for about a month. Also, the spammers use a different IP than the one that they post with. I've been banning both registration IP and the post IP.
I of course didn't notice that. I am not an admin in this Forum :p
But i rather believe that there are some servers which keep registering bots on various boards, and then selling those registered accounts to various "companies" which then use those accounts to spam (which would explain why the IPs are different).
Anyhow - i don't mean to be a smartass, i just wanted to tell my personal experience with this problem.
/quit