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Hello. Can you inform me about how to prevent spam registration without harming real users registration ? What is the best way of achieving this ? Thank you.

I am asking about registration part. I took several measures for not affecting my forum at google.
http://community.mybb.com/thread-110224.html

Has a good detailed list which was made by a member from the support team so. Best one probably registration security question.

Some i think would work well from that list.
Registration Security Question
Spamalyser
Stopforumspam.com for MyBB
Short answer...you can't.

Anything you do effectively to thwart bots is going to require more human interaction. Which has potential to annoy new members. I wouldn't say that's harmful though and for most it's very normal. If they can't bother with a one-time registration inconvenience then they won't make for good members imho.