Re: Antibot/antispam 24 hour marker
The recent antibot registration mod has been working well. Basically a human is needed, instead of OCR software to register. Log out of this site, then start a new Register process and you'll see what I mean.
The ones that do get through are actually from human registrations then ensuing spam. There are cheap labor pools in India that some spammers pay to find boards, register, enter CAPTCHA verifiers, confirmation emails, etc. Those accounts/spams on this board will last maybe a day or two before I do the IP ban on the account and delete all posts from the account.
Email verification is already part of the registration process, new accounts need to confirm via an activation link in the auto-email that is sent out. Also, new account info (email, IP address, etc) gets checked with Spamhaus blacklist and catches many of them, though not all since these spamming vermins are tricky and spoofing all sorts of info to obfuscate their identity/data trail.
The battle continues but now I'm at the cruising/monitoring stage; issues have decreased about 90% for me at this point. Again, thanks to all who have PM'd me with antispam/antibot registration mod resources.