spam

Has spam on your forum ever driven members away from the forum? Were you able to get those members back or did you wash your hands of them?

Only certain forums get spammed, really. My local cycling forum, powered by XenForo gets around 3 to 8 spammers a day. The que always gets them and no one ever sees them. AAF might get one a month. How about your forums?

Maybe I'm late to the party? But it seems like not long ago, I saw that you couldn't get API keys from Stop Forum Spam for quite a while. I'm guessing because there were so many requests. Now you can, and it looks like they have a new website, too! https://www.stopforumspam.com/

So, inspired by @JoelR post here, I wanted to create a new topic on the issue of Security Questions. Do you use a security questions feature on your forum to mitigate spam accounts? This is where people registering must answer a question that you defined with an answer that you have assigned to...

How do you deal with forum spam? I typically add security questions, Google ReCaptcha, or manually approve. Sometimes I'll use two of these methods to tighten security. Preventing spam is important as it can really hurt the reputation of your forum. I wish forums came default with features to...