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PHPbb2 User Registration Spam

GoneShootin · 2008-04-14 10:04:28

I'm using phpbb 2.22 and I'm suffering from user registration spam. Even though there is a captcha on that page it seems to be of no use to certain bots. Without moving to v3 - is there any way I can improve the user registration system?

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14-04-2008 11:04am

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GoneShootin

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I'm using phpbb 2.22 and I'm suffering from user registration spam. Even though there is a captcha on that page it seems to be of no use to certain bots. Without moving to v3 - is there any way I can improve the user registration system?

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#2 14-04-2008 12:19pm
TheWaterboy

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You can edit the registration script to put a simple question into it that the user has to answer - something like what is 1+1

here is an example site where it is used

http://www.wexfordsupporters.com/boards/profile.php?mode=register&agreed=true

No spammer has signed up since it went live

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#3 14-04-2008 2:38pm
GoneShootin

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Nice one - where did you get that script?

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