Bot/spam only real good bots or crawlers mod/plugin

[HITG]

I just started my forum and getting flooded with different bots is there a bot mod for this if not someone wanna bring it out.

Also what are some of the best recommended mods to use on the latest smf.

[HITG]

I might've posted this in the wrong section, my bad.

[vbgamer45]

If you are looking to block bot signups and registrations.
Use Questions and Answers built into SMF

Or use a captcha mod my favaorites Cloudflare Turnstile or hCaptcha found in the customize section.

[HITG]

If you are looking to block bot signups and registrations.
Use Questions and Answers built into SMF

Or use a captcha mod my favaorites Cloudflare Turnstile or hCaptcha found in the customize section.

Are you looking for a one time job to fine tune my site.

It's to do bot crawlers/guests that stay.

[vbgamer45]

If you having perofrmance isuses with bots crawling. You can try using cloudflare which blocks some of the bots via DNS proxying.

Bots can be blocked on the webserver level as well via .htaccess (apache) and robots.txt

Check out this post and general topic for more
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=590433.msg4187833#msg4187833

In terms of jobs i don't have much free time.

[HITG]

Premium dns and crawlers delay did the job

[Doug Heffernan]

A bit late, but have a look at the following wiki as well:

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

[HITG]

A bit late, but have a look at the following wiki as well:

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

It comes up with a error.

[Doug Heffernan]

It comes up with a error.

What error would that be?

[HITG]

That link.

[HITG]

Also this could be decent https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=4430

[Illori]

It comes up with a error.

What error would that be?

i assume due to lack of information it is https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=591689