To many spammers joining and posting, how to stop them?

[badmaash]

Hi

Please have a look at this section on my site (WARNING adult)

You will see lots of spammer posting crap, what is the best way to deal with these people?

I have deleted some of these accounts but they just register again and start posting again, not sure if they are using some sort of automated tool <?>

Thanks

B

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[kat]

RTFM.

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam,_what_can_I_do

[badmaash]

RTFM.

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam,_what_can_I_do

Hi

I activated email activation link, I activated captcha, I created several questions but they still get through.  Is there a proper solution that will stop these guys?

Thanks

B

[Antes]

Yeap, unless they are human spammers. Actually you cannot stop human spammers

[badmaash]

Yeap, unless they are human spammers. Actually you cannot stop human spammers

Actually I just installed the Stop SPammer module - will see how it goes now!

[JustOneOldMan]

Your questions may be too easy.  As it mentions in the document K@ linked to, the questions can be one of the most useful tools.  In addition to the captcha, I always use 5 questions.  The first one is always a simple trick question that surprisingly seems to work pretty well by itself.  I simply ask:

"Are you not a spammer?"

That, in combination with 4 more questions specific to the particular forum seems to work well.  On any given day in one forum I might have 30-50 guests at a time, and looking at "Who's online" usually close to half are trying to register, but I haven't had one get through in a long time.  The thing is, even if they only get one wrong they don't know which one.

If my forum is music related, I ask music based questions, if it's politically related I ask political questions, and so on.  But never easy ones, and try to make them at least slightly confusing.  Something like:

"If Bill has 2 apples, and Mary has 3 apples, what's another name for A#?"

I'm not saying it's foolproof and will stop all spammers, but if you pose the right questions the right way it will stop most of them...

[badmaash]

The Stop SPammer module is working greeeeeeat!

[Storman™]

Great !