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This is a good plugin for registration page:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/registration-s...y-question
- It could be adapted to show only a single question, the one who Administrator wants; (also should be added the ability to Disable / Enable this security question)

This is a good plugin for announcements / news:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/board-messages

This is a good plugin for interface management:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/subforumsincolumns

Maybe the first option as an alternate to captcha (in posts as well) - the other two, not so much.

Probably for the first one, it would be nice.

I agree with the first one. MyBB should provide a CAPTCHA interface so forum admin can easily choose which CAPTCHA system (reCAPTCHA, security questions, are you a human, etc) to use.

Everyone is going for the first option, which I must agree on that.

CAPTCHAs are increasingly inscrutable for users and increasingly less effective at keeping spammers out. No use integrating them now.

You may be right with CAPTCHAs, but we can't simply not add spam prevention tools, and registration questions is one of the alternative to CAPTCHAs.
https://econsultancy.com/blog/63144-six-...cha-images
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...d-captcha/

At the end it is not about implementing an 100% effective solution, but one that may be effective to some degree and friendly at the same time.

(2014-04-25, 03:52 AM)Omar G. Wrote: [ -> ]You may be right with CAPTCHAs, but we can't simply not add spam prevention tools, and registration questions is one of the alternative to CAPTCHAs.

A CAPTCHA just tries to distinguish between a computer and a human. Unfortunately, when most people use this term they mean deciphering some distorted text in an image. Registration questions are one form of CAPTCHA even though it's not image based.

(2014-04-25, 03:52 AM)Omar G. Wrote: [ -> ]At the end it is not about implementing an 100% effective solution, but one that may be effective to some degree and friendly at the same time.

The whole idea behind a CAPTCHA is that it should be trivial (or at least easy) for a human to pass while impossible (or at least difficult) for a computer.

^ Ah, I understood CAPTCHA to mean just the garbled-text thing. I was wrong, sorry!

I think preventing SPAM registrations isn't the most important. Let them get through in order to avoid false positives on real users, or frustrating real users. More powerful tools for detecting SPAM posts and flagging/blocking them (e.g. Spamalyser) and then deleting those users is more important.