Spambots

Well the registration page has both Captcha and a verification question which will stump the majority of bots but some are partly human driven so they automatically fill in most of the data but also have a real person to answer the bits they need to.

I understand there are some plug ins for forum software which block black listed IP's but I don't know if any are available on MyBB (the current software). The last line of defense are our mods who tend to mop up anything that gets through pretty rapidly.
 
We have quite a few countermeasures in place but some still get through and the mods ban them asap. It takes quite a lot of time to keep them off but the mods here do it well.
 
Phew, that's good.

I noticed that the site I looked at had gone from about 350 to around 2000 registered members in just a few weeks after being virtually static.
 
Yes I can believe it, like I say it takes a lot to stay on top of it. I don't envy the job of removing all those accounts.
 
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