by Mike Roque
JoeG wrote:An alternative, used by some other forums, is having to have your registration approved by an admin before you can post. What volumes of new members are we talking about? Are the admins willing to do this?phpBB has the image code functionality (you need to read a distorted code in an image, making it tough to automate registrations), but the current generation of bots seems to be able to get past that. We can turn on admin approval for new members, but there is a LARGE number of registrations everyday (many of them are bots), and it's tough to decipher which are bots and which are humans. At the moment, it's a lot easier to just clean up the forum en-masse (we have powerful tools).