PHPBB3 Anti-Spam Registration Question
By Michael Robinson on May 10, 2009, Filed in: PHP | Recommendation
I administrate a few PHPBB3 forums, and recently noticed one had a BIG spam problem. I had naively assumed that PHPBB3′s version of CAPTCHA would stop the bots at the gate – oops.
Manually deleting 100′s of spam accounts from my forum wasn’t fun.
Determined to prevent this from happening again, I asked Google what to do. Google’s answer was this:
It’s effective, integrates well and is easy to install.
Customize the question to suit your forum
You don’t want to experience a bot infestation – prevention is better than a cure.
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