by runawayhorses Sat 2 Nov - 11:03
Bokssha wrote:Thank you,I will try that
You're welcome.
I've had that security feature turned off for the past 3 years and never once had a bot register. Its my strong opinion something is very wrong with that feature, and is malfunctioning in a very serious way that effects a major point of having a forum in the first place. It seems to cause unnecessary blocks of ligament people trying to join. Thats an opinion based on the fact when that feature is turned off it fixed registration problems that were unrelated to usernames they were choosing, in fact nothing was wrong with the info the people were entering.
Even if a bot registered tomorrow I would not turn the feature on, because the bot registrations would be too few and far between to ever warrant it. That features bad results outweigh the good in this case. Of course, that ratio can vary depending how popular your forum is, in my case maybe the bots aren't interested in my forum because its small and low-key, and clan based really, so the bots don't want to waste there time. lol
However my forum does have excellent SEO and the posts are all over the internet in search results, and the new topics get posted to facebook and twitter automatically, so perhaps a "spam-bot" would do well to hit my forum, but they never do. Even if they did the posts and the account would be deleted within hours.