Reply To: Spam wave hitting my forum again

Yeah, same here. CAPTCHA is mostly theater at this point. What’s actually helped on a couple of the forums I’ve dealt with is: – no links in profile until X posts – first post moderation – a short delay before new accounts can post/profile-edit – blocking disposable email domains if your software supports it The profile-link junk is usually the giveaway. Once they can’t drop a link in the first minute, most of them just move on. If you’re seeing the same pattern over and over, it’s typically not “random” signups, it’s a bot batch hitting the same weak spots. Annoying as hell, but at least it means you can narrow down the rule that’s letting them through. At least from what I’ve seen.