Spambot preventition

[BBloke]

I have added a custom field to the registration process to try and eliminate the spammers from getting through. I know we don't get many but stopping them would be kinda nice.

[Exterminatus]

Captcha? If it is I hope it's a halfway decent one and not one of those 2-words backwards+upside down ones.

[BBloke]

It's nothing to do with captcha. It's just an extra question that needs answer for the form to submit. Something a bot wouldn't automatically know and something it can't OCR like captcha graphics. Fingers crossed.. There's not much spam hits the boards but hopefully it'll stop registration that are illegitimate.

[Exterminatus]

Good work man. Though, to be honest, any spambot that attempts to spam this forum must be pretty desperate...

[BBloke]

lol. I think with the vast array me topics and posts in the forum i believe it's looking for new avenues for spamming.

[Jonnywhy]

Good work man. Though, to be honest, any spambot that attempts to spam this forum must be pretty desperate...

...Toco?

[BBloke]

LOL.. unfortunately being almost human he's totally uncontrollable and cannot be prevented!!

[Supernova]

I always find custom fields are the best way, captchas can get broken but unless it's a human they won't get that

If anybody's interested, on the same topic... Google did some research on a new kind of captcha image that rotates, it can be read here:
http://www.richgossweiler.com/projects/ ... aptcha.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pretty cool

[Exterminatus]

Looks nice Supernova. At least it doesn't take me 5 mins of just staring blankly at the thing trying to make out if that's a O or a 0. Even worse when it's case sensitive...