How do you beat forum spam?

[Shawn Gossman]

What anti-spam features do you have enabled on your forum?

Does it block all spam?

If not, what percentage of spammers are you blocking?

 

[Dilip]

It is easy to block bots. But human spammers are persistent. Drives me mad sometimes.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

It is easy to block bots. But human spammers are persistent. Drives me mad sometimes.

What controls are you using to block the bots?

 

[Dilip]

Mainly CAPTCHA. It is very effective.

Modern-day CAPTCHAs are working fine for me. It is the persistent human spammers that are causing the issue.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Mainly CAPTCHA. It is very effective.

Modern-day CAPTCHAs are working fine for me. It is the persistent human spammers that are causing the issue.

I used to use Security Questions but they seem like they don't work good anymore.

Now I've been using ReCaptcha and it seems to do better!

 

[Papa Bear]

Even recaptcga isn’t foolproof..I use Ozzys registration spammanator..I have use it sence the vbulletin days..

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I'll have to check that out. Ozzy makes some awesome mods!

 

[Dilip]

hCAPTCHA is also nice.

Security questions are good too. But not with human spammers. Making life difficult for them in effect affect the forum activity.