Stopping Bots?

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  • daticus
    Member
    • Jul 2006
    • 53
    • 3.6.x

    Stopping Bots?

    Lately i've been hit with tons of bots registering and posting spam. I have the image verifiication turned on but I guess they can get around it. Anyone else have these problems and know how to solve them?
  • Steve Machol
    Former Customer Support Manager
    • Jul 2000
    • 154488

    #2
    Upgrade to 3.6.4 and read this:

    How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots
    Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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    • PBX1
      Member
      • Mar 2006
      • 92

      #3
      I moderate the posts of new users. When they post a "normal" thread, then I no longer moderate their posts. With the spammers, their first post(s) will be spam so they never get posted to the forum.

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      • daticus
        Member
        • Jul 2006
        • 53
        • 3.6.x

        #4
        I run vBookie and VBBux/plaza. I can live w/o vBookie but vbBux is absolutely necessary for my forum since users buy it with real cash. Upgrading would require a lot of testing, copying (to do test upgrades) and would require days if not weeks to do (im slow). Is there an easier solution or does upgrading to 3.6 require not as much effort as I am thinking.

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