Captcha's

[Foz]

May I suggest that a Q&A captcha is used with PB themed questions? (for instance - "Who created PureBasic?" and "What is the command for connecting to ftp sites?")

On my website, I used a themed Q&A captcha with about 15 different Q&As, and my spam signups fell to zero and and the posts dropped from 200 a day to a big fat Zero.

Just a thought.

[GWarner]

Yeah, the best defense is to make your own as most widely used CAPTCHA systems like reCAPTCHA have long been broken by the spammers.

We now use a small database of questions with another database of posible answers. Our spam sign up went from 30 to 50 a day to zero.

[freak]

The current Captcha does a very good job so far.

[GWarner]

Any CAPTCHA no matter how simple that's "home made" or not widely used is going to stop the spammers using automated sign ups.

[Joakim Christiansen]

Any CAPTCHA no matter how simple that's "home made" or not widely used is going to stop the spammers using automated sign ups.

I wrote my own captcha for my forum and it protected me for a while but these damn new bots with artificial neural networks for recognizing text prevailed in the end.

[skywalk]

Assuming these bots are not Watson like, you could use Jeopardy categories, and seek questions instead.

[GWarner]

What surprises me is, as much as everyone hates spam and with all the spam filters out there, that companies using spam as a primary advertising medium are making enough money to keep doing it.

I for one, to the best of my ability, will not patronize a company that knowingly uses spam to advertize their products.

[Rook Zimbabwe]

The current Captcha does a very good job so far.

you have captcha?

[GWarner]

you have captcha?

Yes, they do. It's called PeopleSign and looks very good.

@Freak;
Thanks for that, I got curious and went far enough through the registration process to see what you had, I'll have to remember that for our forum should it be needed.