Registering issues

[Cherno]

Just saw this on TMP:

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=286879

I checked it out, and the anti-bot test is really kind of odd. I also didn't know that lurker accounts get deleted after a while, I remember multiple people introducing themselves as "long time lurkers" that were just reading for up to a year before posting anything.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

It's nothing new, we have that test since a long time. It didn't prevent a lot of members from registration. 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Just to test it, I’ve deactivated the Spambot-Check for the recent 24 hours. Within this time we’ve got about 20 Spam-Users (mainly from China). That’s a bit of too much work for me, checking them all and their IPs and removing. The Spambot-Check is back. If someone has issues to register, he shall contact me via Forum-Email “forum@ this forum’s domain name” and I will create an account for him.

[Zafarelli]

It might be a bit more user-friendly to go with honeypost. Reduced the contact form spammers on my site to zilch in an instant.