We have been inundated with spambots on the forum recently, and I thought that some measures should be taken to reduce or prevent spambots from registering on the forum. Other boards that I have registered with use a randomly scrambled picture of letters or numbers to verify that the person registering is real and not a bot. Evidently they work really well because bots can't discern the numbers in the picture. If you could upgrade/add that feature to the board, it would hopefully eliminate all this bs spamming that's gone on recently.

Just my. 02

 

I vote either that, or a waiting period before you can actually post.

 

Good suggestion.

 

This version of the forum already has that feature. They just need to enable it. I'm suprised that it never was.

 

It's an item up for review.

 

The only issue is that latter/number CAPTCHAs don't really work anymore. Most of the spambot software capable of registering and posting on forums can decode them.

 

its better than nothing.

 

Only marginally. I enabled CAPTCHAs on my own forum and it had an effect for about a week. Then the spambots just started registering again once they figured out I was using CAPTCHAs...

 

i really hate spam..in emails and the forums..actually everywhere.

:AA:

 

On some other forums I'm on they have a random question in the registration form.

Like:

Are you a spammer?
Then they have a click/drag box with yes and no, or a text box to type no.

What is 4+3?
Again, type in box for 7.

Etc.

 

We have a relatively low amount of fraudulent accounts created compared to the amount of new accounts created. This is something that would be implemented as part of a forum upgrade and won't be immediately addressed.

Our best defense against spammers will always be our users. Please take the time to report the post using the https://www.rx7club.com/images/buttons/report.gif button.

We will however add this to the to-do list.