Registration to our forum and spam

[NastyNative]

been trying to figure out a way to do this, you know the sort of thing, where you have to enter the code displayed as an image into the registration form to prevent automated spammers.
anybody any ideas on this??

thanks guys

check out the site STRSCLAN.com

We are a BF2 clan if anyone is interested speak to me under XFIRE- nastynative17 we are always looking for talent

[Devastator]

I don't reccomend phpBB, i'd rather have vBulletin or IPB. However I have worked lots with phpBB and phpnuke.

I'm pretty sure the latest version has it inbuilt, but you probably don't want to upgrade.

To do what your trying to do is a pain, why not just set activation to admin, by going into Administration Panel, Config, then scroll down to you see activation options and check admin. This means you have to activate new users and they can't do it themselves, simple.

[Overkill-GB]

Vbulletin is premium, IPB is premium, PHPBB is free you can see where the guys coming from howeve if you want quality software pay the price.

[mairving]

All forums have spam. We get quite a bit here. Most boards nowadays use CAPCTHA (the image thing) that helps some. There are also some hacks that will help with spam. You are still going to have to manually clear out some spam.

Personal preferences for forums are Vbulletin, SMF, PHPBB and somewhere near the bottom IPB.

[Devastator]

I guess it's down to personal preference and how much you've used them.

You do a great job in keeping the spam at bay here, good work :)

[NastyNative]

This is the deal
the person incharge of recruitment will get like 100 emaills daily and its kinda getting worst now specially from recruits that are denied into the clan cause they are imature..

If we set admin and we have to give them access then we wont be getting recruits that find our page before they find us, some of them dont bother getting incontact they go to the site and register directly.

CAPCTHA is it a code that could be written and added or does it come with the software?

thanks guys

http://www.captcha.net/

what do you guys think about this?

[mairving]

I know Captcha is in Vbulletin and I think PHPBB. I don't know about the others.

[blue60007]

There are also a few other quick simple "hacks" for phpBB that add simple questions on the registration form. For example, if you have a gaming site...a simple question like, what game do we play? or something like that would do the trick.

[perkster]

the only other option is to have all post approved by mods prior to being posted, which slows down the whole environment, or some forums have that for users with less than say 10 posts, afterwhich their posts are unmoderated, should stop someone creating an account just to post lots of spam messages.

[NastyNative]

i think the hack thing might be a good idea

Now we dont have any problems with the Forum spam...We have problems with Registers who have set up small bots that will register them selves you know.

Thanks for the help guys any more idead please let me know...

Its not PHPBb its HTML this part of our webpage where they register

[blue60007]

Ohh...I don't know if there's a more effective way to stop humans from registering fraudently than doing manual verification. These hacks and such are effective against bots...but of course won't stop humans.