Is it just me or does xenforo have a ton of spam prevention mods?

It seems like every week someone has made a new mod to help fight spam on xenforo forums, here are a few I found with a quick search.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/foolbothoneypot-paid.37063
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/are-you-a-human-spam-combat.36152/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/mass-delete-spam-users.41159
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/are-you-a-human.36167/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/stopcountryspam-paid.36271/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenloginsecurity-paid.40267/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/registration-form-timer.41311/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/sonnb-stop-spam-here-spambusted-api.38810/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/sonnb-stop-spam-here-stop-forum-spam-api.38540/
http://xenforo.com/community/thread...rade-fraud-prevention-spam-combat-paid.41570/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/photo-captcha.41362/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/solve-media.36205/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/sonnb-stop-spam-here-paid.37064/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/captcha-image-set-10-household-items-s1-paid.39446/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/fail2ban-for-spam-waves.35565/
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/funny-img-ads-captcha-spam-combat.41039/


There are still several others that I haven't listed. So I guess my question is, should the xenforo core have tighter security on spam. It's obvious that a stock setup of xenforo will be compromised by spam in no time.

 

I wonder how that list compares to vB? I can only remember a handful of mods for spam at vb.org

 

Well, the problem is that Spam can really take its toll on a forum and xenforo weren't as hit as other platforms, since they're still young. The recent updates in that dreaded xrumer though made our forums a spam haven for some hours/days. I salute any anti-spam plugin, they're really community savers

 

There is nothing wrong with that.

 

They do not have bad behavior though. I really would not want to do without that. That saves me from so much trouble (spam, scrapers, hackers, a *lot* of bandwidth costs)

 

Can never go wrong with more anti-spam measures. As long as they aren't intrusive to true posters/real members but keep bots and other troublesome spammers out then i'm all for them. The more the merrier I say.