Change of registration policy.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Due the problems I'm having with bots being able to crack both the captcha and email activation check (4-5 new bot accounts per day) for the past few weeks, all future member accounts will have to be activated by me. As I am online almost every day, hopefully this won't put off any new members.

Thank you for your understanding.

[KristopherWindsor]

All you have to do is manually change the registration page form, so bots made for this type of BB board won't know how to handle your site.
IE make an input where the user has to type "pizza," and odds are that they will never get this.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

I was told the same for my sum equations on the main site, and they aren't quite working.

Bots are relentless.

Resistance is futile.

[nkk_kan]

Captcha images work the best
Those sum equations were crackable
Anyways, this is the best way i suppose...hope your mailbox doesn't fill up with bot's registration requests

[Mitchell]

I was told the same for my sum equations on the main site, and they aren't quite working.

Bots are relentless.

Resistance is futile.

Make a simple task like right clicking an image to the side, copy image location, then paste the location to some box tat asks for it (and make the image name something really weird). It should catch them off guard. Keep it weird but simple.

[aave]

Those sum equations were crackable

I was told the same for my sum equations on the main site, and they aren't quite working.

Yes, equations are crackable and there are bots that can do that when they see stuff like plus signs (e.g. 1+2=?) The trick is to make the captcha a little more hard for a bot to spot, eg. "How many animals is one elephant and a lion?" Or something like "Which one is round, a sphere or a rectangle?" The question can be very simple, as long as a bot cannot automatically detect it. Sure, it would be very easy to make one that can crack that, but spammers tend to concentrate writing bots that can crack most popular captchas, not some individual page that has around 30 visitors a day.