If the amount off real people getting to the board then its not so bad.
Also people dotn have to get nerved because no link posting work.
Or the other way that only users that post in teh houre after registeration an hello post stay. All other get deleted.The few getting this also handled get deleted manual.
Also, regarding both ideas, think if you had automated account deletion, a very clear statement at registration is needed to let potential human registrations know the potential actions taken if they do commit an act such as posting a link.
question as captchas are somewhat more safe, tend to be easily answered though, as well. Thus, there are -- surprise! -- services to solve them.
Quotequestion as captchas are somewhat more safe, tend to be easily answered though, as well. Thus, there are -- surprise! -- services to solve them.How about making a list of diffent questions and only activate one question for a specific time. The questons would be made by the staff and would be active for lets say 4 days. If then the usercounter spikes again, then the question propably got solved by one of those services.As soon as we notice an increase of spambots we can simply switch out the question.
While I have no idea about if that were spambots or not, I don't want to risk losing 40% registrations, just because people are unable to enter "modcraft".