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How to stop spam in PHPBB3?

I get an awful lot of spam on my forums where only registered users can register and captcha is in use. What could we best do to stop spammers registering to my forums?

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I have had some success making the image the background of the DIV (instead of using the IMG element). Most spambots ignore CSS background styles.



If you want to make life a little harder for spammers, leave the IMG, use a different image and set it to display: none;

. It will be difficult for the bot to find that the IMG is not showing.

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FUDForum is somewhat better for me. It was pretty much hands-free and I installed several. There is no spam without bots yet.



The reason I believe fudforum survived the spam bot is because it uses ASCII text for captcha. You can try reusing it in other forums.

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