Postby Michael Olsen » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:34 am
I understand there to be three possibilities:
1. Require administrator approval for all registrations. This is usually not good, as people who come here to ask a question usually want to ask the question now, not in a few hours or a day after an admin has gone through and approved the user.
2. Update the image verification software. There is an image that appears at registration to stop bots from creating accounts. Unfortunately, advertisers have figured out how to go around them. If there is an update (I don't know if there is) to the image software, it might keep a 'step ahead' of the spammers.
3. It's possible to add on another "image" verification type element to the registration page in phpBB. I did this on my forum, and there haven't been any spam posts since - nil.
Unfortunately, it took me a while to figure it out, and I didn't write down the procedure. I'll look around the web and see if I can find anything easier.
So far it's been managed well without the above, though - spam messages are constantly deleted. So thanks for putting in that effort - it's a lot of time and a big annoyance, I'm sure.
