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FireDitto:
I have over 70 IP address blocked, because none of my captcha are working.

I've tried questions & Answers, the Visual verification image, KeyCAPTCHA (now turned off), Bad Behavior and Akismet Spam Blocking...

And I still have an unholy number of Spam being posted ><

What am I doing wrong! ;;

ziycon:
Have a look at this mod httpbl and make sure you have a verification question added for registration.

FireDitto:
I haven't had any issues at all with registration; they are all concentrated in spamming my boards with annoying posts.

ziycon:
httpbl will check the ip that the user is registering from or posting from against the honeypot projects database of known spammers and block them, give httpbl a go and let us know how you get on, you will need to register with the honeypot project to get an api key, its all free and legit.

MovedGoalPosts:
Make sure email authentication is active for your new registrants and also ask them to do verification for the first couple of posts.

Use a random choice of say 2 verification questions from a choice of 10 - your one question can easily be programmed into a bot, but random question choices make things a lot harder.

I don't think you have bad-behaviour running?

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