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Old 03-26-2015, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by hathorlive View Post
Actually, there are things you can set up in the vbulletin settings that are much more effective at stopping spam. I run a forum using PHPBB and used the techniques which totally stopped spam. Vbulletin has a way to set up questions during register (like what is 1 +1) that any human should be able to complete. It's totally stopped spam accounts from being created on my board.
Actually, my sorority does this on our website. Whenever you register for something, pay dues, etc. it has a simple addition problem to solve and there's a message like: to prove you are a human, please answer this question.
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