I have the security question for guest posting (and registration) and it works quite well. Captcha is easily beaten by spam bots these days.
The previous question was' who is the prime minister of ....' With a hint showing how many characters (with the first one given) and using lower case only.
Just recently after a year or so it got beaten and Im sure it was not a bot but a human doing it. That opened the floodgates as they probably exchange or sell registration and posting security question answers for boards they have cracked.
New security question is working well after a couple of months - not a single spam post or registration.
The previous question was' who is the prime minister of ....' With a hint showing how many characters (with the first one given) and using lower case only.
Just recently after a year or so it got beaten and Im sure it was not a bot but a human doing it. That opened the floodgates as they probably exchange or sell registration and posting security question answers for boards they have cracked.
New security question is working well after a couple of months - not a single spam post or registration.
Statistics: Posted by genshijin — Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:44 pm