Preventing spam bots

[w0lfman]

Is there a way to prevent spam bots from accessing forum? I'm seeing an extremely high amount of guest visitors which looks to be something other than an actual person accessing site as guest.

[Kindred]

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

[Illori]

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

that does not prevent guests from viewing the site. do you want to completely block guests from viewing your forum or?

[Kindred]

Oh, I missed that.



https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=590038.0

in short...   they probably are not spam bots... they are probably google and other spiders crawling to fill the bellies of their AI

[w0lfman]

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

that does not prevent guests from viewing the site. do you want to completely block guests from viewing your forum or?

I dont want to prevent human guest, but need to figure out how to prevent like what was mentioned these spiders etc.

[Illori]

take a look at https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=590038.0

[shawnb61]

Yeah, unfortunately crawlers are running amok.

If you haven't already, you need to probably work on a robots.txt & .htaccess file.

More here:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?msg=4179600

And here:
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?msg=4186334

[gkawa]

I changed the registration time, and it's working. No bot registration in the last two months.

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=591360.msg4188155#msg4188155

The only problem is that you'll have to remember to set it back for updates or the script won't recognize the line. In case there's a change around there.