The reCaptcha definitely helped.
There are a lot fewer spambot signing up on the forum then before. At least fewer low-tech spambots.
The recent spambots are however extra-spammy. They post between 20 to 50 posts/threads each day.
Haxus needs to at least login on the forum once per day to ban all the reported spambots (which I and others have been doing nicely it seems). Which shouldn't be too much work now that most of the spam is coming from few spambots rather than many.
Long term though, we need some nofollow links plugin or usergroups to make it pointless for the spambots to be here.
See: (Thread) Re: Remove the spammers
A proper nofollow links setup combined with at least daily spambot banning should be enough to get it under control. But this problem will probably still go on for quite a while before it goes away.
There are a lot fewer spambot signing up on the forum then before. At least fewer low-tech spambots.
The recent spambots are however extra-spammy. They post between 20 to 50 posts/threads each day.
Haxus needs to at least login on the forum once per day to ban all the reported spambots (which I and others have been doing nicely it seems). Which shouldn't be too much work now that most of the spam is coming from few spambots rather than many.
Long term though, we need some nofollow links plugin or usergroups to make it pointless for the spambots to be here.
See: (Thread) Re: Remove the spammers
A proper nofollow links setup combined with at least daily spambot banning should be enough to get it under control. But this problem will probably still go on for quite a while before it goes away.