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Arno
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Spam... :-(

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Last times, a lot of spam has been posted here. For me quite annyoing as I often need to clean up threads and user accounts from the forum.

It looks like the same person/bot is registrating every time with another username. I don't know how they pass the screen with Anitspam question, but if this continues to happen as frequently as now, I will need to block the registration for new members... Anyone has other ideas?
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Post by LogicDeLuxe »

The "anti spam question" lacks any randomness, which makes it very easy to code a bot registering new accounts automatically all the time.
Maybe add some quiz which a casual BD player can answer. Do the actual question in pictures which can't be read easily by OTR software.
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Post by Arno »

Thanks! :)
I've changed the question, let's see if this helps for the short term.
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