We use StopForumSpam on registration (IP and email).
On the MyBB software, mods have a nice button that shows up while a user has under 5 posts:
When depressed:
Current statistics indicate that SFS led us to reject 720 registrations over the last two months (so that's a bit over 10 spammers a day...) and that we manually dealt with about 30 (a spammer every two days).
User registration also involves a rather trivial "security question", but the only one to have a 100% success is the default "What does 2 + 2 equal?" (which, comes to think of it, may be recognized by spammer software, so I'm going to remove it).
On the MyBB software, mods have a nice button that shows up while a user has under 5 posts:
When depressed:
- User name, email and IP are reported to StopForumSpam
- All the user content is deleted
- The user is banned or deleted (depends on setting, now we use Delete)
Current statistics indicate that SFS led us to reject 720 registrations over the last two months (so that's a bit over 10 spammers a day...) and that we manually dealt with about 30 (a spammer every two days).
User registration also involves a rather trivial "security question", but the only one to have a 100% success is the default "What does 2 + 2 equal?" (which, comes to think of it, may be recognized by spammer software, so I'm going to remove it).