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**Evoryboypoto** · 10-08-2009, 04:12 PM

Rather than getting more people to kill spam, it seems like it would be more efficient to keep the spammers from signing up to begin with.

We do that, and originally we used an image-based captcha kind of thing, but the bots were starting to get through that pretty easily. I switched it to a simple knowledge-based question and that reduced the bots considerably. We get one or two a week now it seems, as opposed to multiple bots daily like we used to have. If we didn't use anything, we'd be flooded and then manual spam removal would be very onerous.

ETA I've updated the question as we do seem to be getting more bots lately. Maybe the word's getting around.

10-08-2009, 04:12 PM	#18
Evoryboypoto Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 377 Senior Member	Rather than getting more people to kill spam, it seems like it would be more efficient to keep the spammers from signing up to begin with. We do that, and originally we used an image-based captcha kind of thing, but the bots were starting to get through that pretty easily. I switched it to a simple knowledge-based question and that reduced the bots considerably. We get one or two a week now it seems, as opposed to multiple bots daily like we used to have. If we didn't use anything, we'd be flooded and then manual spam removal would be very onerous. ETA I've updated the question as we do seem to be getting more bots lately. Maybe the word's getting around.
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