Before anything else, apologies everyone. I know this has been discussed to death and beyond through several reincarnations but even after checking out older posts I still can't get my finger on the answer...
As I'm writing this, bots are registering on my web forum. I configured email forwarders to let me know when such happens but for now, registrations are set to await my approval.
Now, after pretty much abandoning my site for quite and letting it dangle, I picked it up again and saw myself confronted with 27K accounts registered. With almost no content and only 20 guests, the math and what action I have to undertake here is obvious = full account rejection.
The need to ascertain which registrations are likely to be from actual human beings is there but I have no idea how can I filter out the bots.
I've tried:
>Bad Behaviour Mod.
>Project Honeypot.
If there's an SMF "ISO" at curbing these scripted armed forces, please do point me to it.
Sorry again for bothering.