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Greg@GLD
01-19-2007, 08:01 AM
You guys do a great job here, this is just a suggestion...

It takes just a few minutes to install this mod:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1155247#post1155247

You could create some rather simple questions to keep clueless spammers from joining BCM with it. We installed it on the Corral- and afterwards the number of spam accounts, especially the stupid russian spammers, dropped to almost zero. The question we ask? If you can believe it- "What is the model of vehicle this website caters to?" (Mustang of course!)

And sure enough, those who just do google searches looking for VB sites to spam get stumped by it.

Perhaps questions about musclecars, or what is the name of a certain road that many of us gather on?

We set it up to work alongside the CAPTCHA image, and we also installed the "timer mod" that stops bots dead by making sure the transtion between page one and page two of the process takes more then 15 seconds to complete (bots will "autoregister" in 1 or 2 seconds)

As I said, you guys do a great job and this is just a suggestion and not an assault on anyone's skills or manhood. :D

Crawlin
01-20-2007, 09:30 AM
that's cool how that works!