2014-04-18, 08:30 AM
2014-04-18, 08:53 AM
You need to make the questions very difficult. Bots are fairly intelligent at answering everyday questions.
Also, try
http://mods.mybb.com/view/are-you-a-human-captcha for preventing future spam bots. This has treated me excellently. Though it won't help for spammers already registered. I assume you have akismet activated?
EDIT: I see you have only the default captcha enabled on registration. This is fairly useless. Engage Google captcha and/or registration questions or the above mentioned plugin to keep them from registering.
Also, try
http://mods.mybb.com/view/are-you-a-human-captcha for preventing future spam bots. This has treated me excellently. Though it won't help for spammers already registered. I assume you have akismet activated?
EDIT: I see you have only the default captcha enabled on registration. This is fairly useless. Engage Google captcha and/or registration questions or the above mentioned plugin to keep them from registering.
2014-04-18, 02:50 PM
You can stop spammers just by enabling recaptcha on your forum.
2014-04-18, 06:29 PM
(2014-04-18, 08:30 AM)Spartacus! Wrote: [ -> ]genereal security question is installed
Are you sure? I don't see any security question on your registration page. Does it come later?
2014-04-19, 09:49 AM
http://community.mybb.com/thread-83250.html - Works great then reCAPTCHA or MyBB default CAPTCHA
http://community.mybb.com/thread-63764.html - StopForumSpam.com
http://community.mybb.com/thread-63764.html - StopForumSpam.com