I’m having this exact same problem and it’s horrible, it’s destroying my site!
I installed Askimet and that helps, but not enough.
I installed a human challenge for registration, again it helps – but not enough.
I started blocking entire IP blocks via .htaccess – no luck.
I finally removed the registration link for the sign up entirely – STILL getting new users.
I spend an hour a day, every day of my life now just deleting spam accounts and spam posts that get past my filters. All I want to do is turn off registration and make it so only I can create accounts. I do NOT want to take down my site simply because I can’t get a handle on spam.
PLEASE – any help with this would be most appreciated!
Ideally I’d like to kill new user registration in a way that allows me to manually create accounts or, if that’s not doable – kill new registrations entirely.
Please help, i’m desperate!
