New User registration – Spam

  • CarliesHero

    (@carlieshero)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    We are receiving a TON of new users and all of them are spam. Our forum is currently set up to allow people to become a new user simply by adding their email and password. Is there a more secure way to have people sign up that would ensure that there is actually a person signing up and not a robot? Maybe make them answer a simple math question, etc?

    Any suggestions?

    Thank you!

    Charles

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  • Ryan Yu

    (@geeksfolder)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Which forum system are you using?

    You can use captcha system and this is one of the popular ones.
    http://www.google.com/recaptcha

    And you may be able to set this up depending on your forum system.

    Thread Starter CarliesHero

    (@carlieshero)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    We are using simple press….any suggestions?

    Ryan Yu

    (@geeksfolder)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    You can enable the registration “Captcha”.

    Log in the backend and go to Forum > Components > Login and Registration.
    Move down to “User Registration” and tick the box next to “Use Spam Tool for User Registration”.

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