Spamming

Appearantly there are spammers around again… In my forum I implemented a cheap hack to fight automated spammers that create accounts and post replies.
You can find it here:
http://forum.mlotz.ch/viewtopic.php?t=23

Maybe it would be an option to implement here too.

mmlr wrote:
Appearantly there are spammers around again... In my forum I implemented a cheap hack to fight automated spammers that create accounts and post replies. You can find it here: http://forum.mlotz.ch/viewtopic.php?t=23

Maybe it would be an option to implement here too.

I think the trie-and-true way to prevent automated account creation is one of those little graphical letter/number deals where the user has to type what they see in the image (which is smeared to prevent OCR)