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Author Topic: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]  (Read 39466 times)

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How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« on: January 31, 2012, 07:46:32 am »
Best way to block spam bots. :)

Okay let's start...

First on your forum, open admin panel.

Go to Configuration -> Security and moderation -> Anti-Spam

Scroll down and set Number of verification questions user must answer


Under that set your questions.

Example of my questions:


Tip: Do not add question like "are you bot" bots can usually track that question.

Okay, if you did it correctly it should look like this:



I hope this helped. :)

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Re: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 02:58:43 pm »
Nice tutorial!

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Re: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 03:12:31 pm »
Best to make a harder ermm verifcaction code aswell isnt it ';) just go admin panel configuration- security and moderation then you will see Configure Verification Methods
Below you can set which anti-spam features you wish to have enabled whenever a user needs to verify they are a human. Note that the user will have to pass all verification so if you enable both a verification image and a question/answer test they need to complete both to proceed.

Visual verification image to display
The more complex the image the harder it is for bots to bypass 

Number of verification questions user must answer
(0 to disable; questions are set below)

then set the one you want! its also sometimes a good idea to make it so users have to activate there account via email!

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Re: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 08:35:13 am »
Best to make a harder ermm verifcaction code aswell isnt it ';) just go admin panel configuration- security and moderation then you will see Configure Verification Methods
Below you can set which anti-spam features you wish to have enabled whenever a user needs to verify they are a human. Note that the user will have to pass all verification so if you enable both a verification image and a question/answer test they need to complete both to proceed.

Visual verification image to display
The more complex the image the harder it is for bots to bypass 

Number of verification questions user must answer
(0 to disable; questions are set below)

then set the one you want! its also sometimes a good idea to make it so users have to activate there account via email!

Bots can pass Smf's verification image.
Bots can also easily pass email activation too.

This is best way to block bots without making human's registration harder.

They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor ~Tupac Amaru Shakur

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Re: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2012, 03:21:16 pm »
If you want i can make a video on some stuff

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Re: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2012, 05:57:33 pm »
thanks jagge :)
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Re: How to block spam bots [ON REGISTRATION]
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2012, 11:42:27 am »
Thank you bro

 

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