Spammers/spambots

[Austin01]

Hi,

I have a forum that has spammers/spambots registering and I have every good plugin to stop them installed and working but they still seem to get by. Any suggestions or tips? The forum runs on mybb, if thats any help.

Thanks!

 

[CyberFreak]

Have you tried this one? - http://mods.mybb.com/view/stopforumspam-com-for-mybb

 

[TechWiz18]

You know that mod blocks my username Daniel sometimes and I don't know if it's the way the admins have it set up but it is irritating

 

[CyberFreak]

Don't have it check usernames against the database.

http://community.mybb.com/attachment.php?aid=17133

On that settings page, set the username check to no and problem solved.

 

[el canadiano]

Combine the Stopforumspam.com integration with this, the Q&A CAPTCHA.

http://community.mybb.com/thread-83250.html

This is what gets away the bots.

 

[AnAccount]

Don't have it check usernames against the database.

http://community.mybb.com/attachment.php?aid=17133

On that settings page, set the username check to no and problem solved.

We actually lifted that restriction this week. I felt it was unfair that members should have to pick a different username only because their desired username was in the database. So I asked my techy person if he would please be so kind to remove that restriction (but leave it so that suspicious ones could still be flagged) and he gave in... so now that restriction has been lifted. I hated that because it was like punishing thousands of potential members for something only a handful of users have done ro whatever have you, which is why I asked to lift that restriction. Thank God we did, too, because I was tired of, "I won't join your forum because according to your thing, my usernames on the database!" I just wanted a hassle free registeration process, and my prayers were answered and that's what I got. Hopefully this'll help with activity as well.