Spam Bot Help

So I saw the thread and was wondering how to add that feature to my site, I saw one of the sites and don't really know what to do. I have a vB 4.0.8 version

 

Did you have a problem with Spam yet? You can try to add the Q's and A's registration field which does a good job.

 

Taking a read through: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/359107-How-to-Reduce-Spam-and-Registration-Bots should help you out a lot

 

@Kaiser, It's better to be safe then sorry you know
@ Ashley, seems like that might help, I will give it a go and see if I see any results.

 

Remember how I also suggested the Q and As read this here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...s-and-Ways-to-Combat-It?p=2099123#post2099123

 

Alright thanks for all the help, I will give this a go and see if anything happens.

 

Alright
Just for future reference post for help in the vBulletin section of the forum software discussions forum, not the adminbb support forum which is just for adminbb support

 

I've currently enabled, email verification, and I am adding multiple Q&A, a question is randomly selected when registering, so hope this helps. Can't do much about human spammers though.

 

Yea, also make sure the Q and A is reguired or else it wont help.

 

I just check and it is, I'm sure even a human spammer would be too lazy to verify, answer a question, and wait for admin validation. Might be a little work for the admins at GFx, but its worth it if it means stopping spammers.

 

Dont use questions like whats 5 + 1? Bots can solve those, use more complex ones like "What is the 2nd letter in the word GamingFx?" And make the answer: a Just an example bro.

 

O no no lol those types of questions are over used, If you try registering you'll see the question you'll get and tell me if it's complex.

 

What is the 5th word in this sentence?
that will do lol.

 

There's a mod called vbStopForumSpam on vbulletin.org. I use it on two of my forums and only get about 1 spammer per month.

 

Yea I talked with him on his forum and found him the (Spam-O-Matic) which is for vb 4.0 the one you have vbStopForumSpam is for 3.8 See: http://www.stopforumspam.com/contributions

 

It works on all versions of 4 too.

 

Its only meant to be for vb3.8.
Anyways I have the Spam-0-Matic integrated with the Stopforumspam, I love it.

 

One key solution from what I've heard is to change the Meta Description and Keywords. Pretty easy when Elizabeth (southernlady) points out the defaults over at TAZ.