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I agree with ChrisRLG entirely.
My previous post in the other topic which has been locked now, for replies to be continued in this topic thread, was this....
Since making my changes (background noise, and custom profile questions), no more spambots :twisted:
But thats 2 levels of sophistication ...

Since making my changes (background noise, and custom profile questions), no more spambots :twisted:
But thats 2 levels of sophistication. Maybe I should have left the custom profile questions off initially to evaluate effectiveness of just the background noise change.
I've de-activated my custom ...

I think the post count moderation technique will probably only frustrate genuine new members who wonder why their post is not appearing yet (particularly if they are used to posts appearing immediately on other forums they use).

I use Admin activation of new accounts on our forum only. I think the ...

Manage Groups, select group, click Settings, tick Display group in legend: option.

The ironic thing is... I didn't get no spam bots at all until I updated to 3.0.4 from 3.0.2. I reckon, within 6 hours of updating the spam bots started successfully getting through.

I would agree with this idea. I've not had any spam registrations atall under 3.0.2, and have been meaning to ...

Thank you very much eviL3 :)
That was nice and easy.

I was intrigued by the triple equals sign operator (===).

At first I thought it was a typo, but decided I'd best look it up before opening my mouth!

$a === $b means Identical, i.e. TRUE if $a is equal to $b, and they are of the same type ...

I have spent the last 2 hours reading through various posts from people asking whether the Views counts gets incremented / increased by Spiders and Bots and Spammers.

While Spambots could be considered an entirely different issue and problem in its own right, with various MODS and mechanisms to ...