Hi all, interested to hear about how anyone deals with spam registrations.

So, I use the plugin reCaptcha by BestWebSoft which stops the bots.

But, how do you stop physical spam registration to your forum? I am getting around 20 a week now and they are by actual people with real email addresses. Around half of them get the confirmation email and then set their new password… Many then go silent but some make a post straight away to gambling, porn, the usual rubbish….

I have first posts flagged for approval so nothing ever gets posted but its a pain every week to manually remove these 10, 20, 30 new spam profiles.

be interested in any observations/other solutions.

Have a great day!

[@robin-w Moderator 7 months ago]

I remove 10-20 from this site weekly.

bbpress just uses wordpress registration, so this article (picked at random from a quick google of ‘stop wordpress spam registration’ might be useful

https://www.malcare.com/blog/stop-wordpress-registration-spam/

askismet is also very good.

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[@dedial Participant 7 months ago]

Hello

The best anti spamm thing to install its the Google Recaptcha v3 you can find here https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3 , its easy to install into the sites.

Regards

[@ibnat Participant 7 months ago]

Hi @dedial

As I mentioned in m post, I am already using Google Recaptcha v3 which stops the bots. Scroll up and you’ll see my initial post.