[Jarrod]

There's been problem with spam bots recently on my site and I wanted to know if there's a way to prevent this.
Site here: http://thednetwork.x10.mx/

[CBastard]

IP Block China and Russia.

[Adzter]

Use 'Spambot Countermeasures' inside the admin control panel, from experience I'd say the best to set it to is Q&A as I used to get a bit of spam and after switching to Q&A it's stopped

[rookwood101]

I'd find a different captcha plugin. Most of the ones that come with phpbb have been broken.

[Jarrod]

Just made it Q&A with the question "Whats 2+2?" as I can't be arsed to do more.

[Chulo Arco]

Get the Recaptcha plugin if you can find it. Phpbb isn't the best system for board hosting. ;)

[TTSDA]

Jarrod posted:

Just made it Q&A with the question "Whats 2+2?" as I can't be arsed to do more.

Computers are better at solving math than humans.

[Kirth]

TTSDA posted:

Computers are better at solving math than humans.

Most bots swamp dozens, of not hundreds of boards with spam: they're not custom tailored to expect that question on the sign up.

[AndrewPH]

Kirth posted:

Most bots swamp dozens, of not hundreds of boards with spam: they're not custom tailored to expect that question on the sign up.

I would imagine that they check for stuff like this, though.

Could ask for the cube root of 27, although, like the above, I'm sure there's a few bots out there that are able to detect and solve that.

[Silentfood]

http://stopforumspam.com/contributions

Facepunch even has this installed. It's perfect.

[zzaacckk]

Jarrod posted:

Just made it Q&A with the question "Whats 2+2?" as I can't be arsed to do more.

[TTSDA]

Kirth posted:

Most bots swamp dozens, of not hundreds of boards with spam: they're not custom tailored to expect that question on the sign up.

Bots ARE custom tailored to expect math questions, and many other things.
Many bots even solve captchas.

[Adzter]

I've just got mine set to 'type this word backwards:' and just used various random words.

[Reactors]

Don't use phpBB.