How to protect against members posting spam?

ColdAsIce · 10 May 2013 at 10:33

Just recently setup my own phpbb forum. Today I have had 3 new signups posting advertising crap. What is the best way to protect against this?

ColdAsIce · 10 May 2013 at 10:44

Pretty sure captcha is already turned on

does that mean someone is physically signing up to post this crap?

ColdAsIce · 10 May 2013 at 11:46

Confused said:
The graphic captchas are rubbish. Re-Captcha even more so.

Enable the Q&A option, and set up a few questions, and change them every couple of months.

When I did this, it basically stopped spam overnight.

Nice idea will look to set this up.

For the moment I have made new members go into the newly registered members group. From here they are new members until after their first post.

That first post has to be approved by a moderator before posting.

Thanks everyone.

ColdAsIce · 13 May 2013 at 15:48

Just to update, I changed to the Q&A and used questions such as pick the 1st, middle and last letter from this word: I would then create a completely made up word with no spaced.

Since then no bot signups. Thanks guys.