Attn: Admins - Spambot Invasion

[CptSternn]

Over the past few weeks there have been more spambots than normal. We are seeing one every day or so. Whats more troubling is they are target marketed spambots. They are posting in forums where a few buzz words seem to match the product they are selling, although their posts are very recognisable since they only slightly mesh with the topic.

Can the admin powers that be not put some systems in place to stop this? For example:

A CAPTCHA check on the signup screen

Make it mandatory that users post in the introduction forum before they can post elsewhere

Restrict users from creating new threads until they have done 10 replies to current threads

I have these mods installed on some other forums I frequent/mod and they are extremely effective when it comes to keeping out spambots.

[Gothic.net]

We do appreciate you reporting the occasional spambot. But, invasion? really? One or two get through from time to time. On this site, the human verification questions statistically stop significantly more attempts then we found being stopped by captcha. This isn't to belittle the issue, spambots are a nuisance.