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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.

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.

The current Captcha does a very good job so far.

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

GWarner wrote: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.

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

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.

freak wrote:The current Captcha does a very good job so far.

you have captcha?

Rook Zimbabwe wrote: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.