Sup all. IM just starting this thread to tell about a cool mod I found for phpbb that works great for stopping spam bot signups. http://bbantispam.com/howto/ Thats the link to it. IM using the textual confirmation mod. I installed it in 2 minutes using easy mod! It's great and seems to work. Thanks for this mod!
Do you mean making it so difficult that real members wont sign up? If so i dont think adding the text verification is that bad.
The easiest way is just to upgrade to phpBB3 because the anti-bot system is much improved. It's free and easy! Good find tho.
Yeah thats why i havent gone to phpbb3. Everything else was great except for the spam but this text detection is working very well so far!
This might be why you're getting spam. Remove that, and your version number. I've done both and very rarely get spam. I don't even need special spam plugins for an active community (extra fields to fill out = fewer conversions).
Anti-spam question mod for phpBB2.x works very well, but it’s a bit of annoyance that you always ‘have to’ install this. Does phpBB3.x’s anti-spam feature work as effectively as the anti-spam question mod? Also how does it work exactly?
I don't know how to code php; you would have to ask a coder how they have done it. And yes, phpbb2 is one year old. Think of the changes in anti-spam methods.