How to stop Spam Bots?

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__Nemesis__
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How to stop Spam Bots?

Post by __Nemesis__ »

Well I have the answer :D
I am a member of another forum for a different game and only a few months ago we took a step towards stopping spam bots.
Spam bots fill in anything even if there is a beg red box saying:

IMPORTANT: leave the Profile Information blank!

Do not fill in any of the following Profile Information fields, else it will cause the registration process to fail. This is for security purposes; it prevents automatic sign-up robots (spambots) from registering, because they always fill in some of the fields.

Note: you can still provide Profile Information after your account has been created.

And since this update to the forum we have had no spam from spam bots for a very, very long time :D

So what do you think :wink:
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ltrbojevic
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Post by ltrbojevic »

Sounds like a good idea but i never heard of a mod for phpBB2 that can do that, not sure tho, and it might confuse people

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phpbbhacks.com

phpbb.com

Search function ftw.
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Post by ltrbojevic »

Aby wrote:phpbbhacks.com

phpbb.com

Search function ftw.


I didn't say i think it doesn't exist, i said i never heard of it, and have never seen a website with it. :wink:

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