spammer hardening

Fishtales

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Hi
With all the spammers hitting the board recently, why not make it more difficult to join and post. Maybe require the new person to answer three questions about GW and every 3 months or so change them up to let them join, maybe a code or word that is sent to their email that they must register with and a 24 hour waiting period to post. If they don't know the GW questions, they contact the moderator.

This doesn't have to be bulletproof, just need it to be tougher than other sites. My guess is that they move on to easier sites. Just an idea to keep the riffraff off the site.
 

alantani

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you can use spam filters like stopforumspam.com or honeypot.com to filter out spammers. you can also make them activate their accounts by sending them an e-mail that they have to respond to. those measures have pretty much eliminated spammers on my site.