Yeah, I have the registration one installed here and it's worked perfectly. I haven't had a single spam reg since. If they do take the time to figure out what the variable is I can just change it and then they have to spend a lot of time here every day.

The "Anti-bot Guest Post Mod" SHOULD work the same way, but the guy did not mention where the variable was. I took a guess and tried to make it unique, but it obviously didn't work. If the author could implement the same theory that the reg bot guy used then the spam problem would be solved.

BTW, I saw a mod over at phpBB.com that you'd like.

It let the admin enter a variable for one particular part of the registration page. The spammers never actually load the registration page, they just send the POST from it - with the variables pre-loaded. The admin changes one of those variables and effectively blocks the spammer. All done nice and neat in the admin page and no need to file renaming.

It's not done at the posting page but the guest posting "yes/no" could easily be modified to change the equivalent variable. Who knows, maybe that's a part of another mod already.

It seems to only be going on in this base, so I will remove guest posting from here for a while and see if it spreads to the other places.

The mod I installed seems to no longer work. Was nice for a while there.

um, yes there was a link, some stupid hosting site. I guess they have nothing better to do than post stupid spam shit.

They get paid for doing that?

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Did this guy originally have a link in his post?

Right now I'm trying to see if the spammers are able to use a script versus having to actually access the site. If they are coming here and really selecting "Yes" on the drop-down menu there isn't anything that can be done. Our guy who started this thread definitely did that.

But my fear is that the drive-by posts are still happening. I changed the variable for the drop-down menu, so it shouldn't be possible... but still. I'm checking the logs right now to be sure.

Thanks again, by the way, for your help.

Just to be annoying in this thread and for no other reason. I have decided to prefix anything I say with "um".

Um, so anything you read here in the next month will look rather sophmoric, but it's still me.


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