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It seems that allowing guest user to post encourage the bots to not register to post their spams... Manutoo, on my forums guests can do nothing besides read, they cannot post anything anyway and still I get these spam registrations. What I find strange is that these poor idiots register on the site...

I find it interesting that 98% of the latest spammers used gmail accounts.
Normally it is emails ending with .ru but these ones were just about all of them gmail accounts.

Thanx COD3M4ST3R-X got it now

Admin panel post settings Enable queued posts: Not in my control panel. If I go to post settings I only get the following options: Messages * BBCodes * Private message settings * Topic icons * Smilies * Word censoring Attachments * Attachment settings * Manage extensions * Manage extension groups *...

"and/or set a moderation queue so that all new members first post(s) have to be approved."
How do you do that?

Hi rleeden, I agree with too much noise. If one ads too much noise you make it too difficult for real users to register.

I did and I even changed the setting to make it more difficult to read. It has not effect

I recently upgraded to 3.0.4 and the past month I have been receiving a lot of users registering probably for spam purposes. They have all these funny usernames in and most of the custom fields I added at registration they just enter "test". I spend more time deleting these accounts than e...