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Hi guys,
I’m getting lots of spam registrations to my forum and wondered if wpforo had any idea of what’s going off?
All the registrations seem to come in, change their passwords one minute up to an hour later (which go to a non-existant email address) and then just leave a load of dead weight in my ‘users’ panel.
In my WordPress General settings, the option of ‘membership – anyone can register’ is UN-checked, so I’m guessing that any spam registrations are coming straight through from wpforo.
I tried Akismet out last night, but all THAT did was to allow loads of comments coming through, plus the spam registrations were still happening, so I deactivated Akismet and went back to Antispam Bee.
I then turned all of the wpforo antispam controls to ‘yes’ to see if that worked, but sadly the spam registrations are still coming through.
In addition to the antispam measures that are invoked by wpforo, would it not be a good practice to enable a ‘honeypot’ feature, ie add a new field that spambots would try to fill in and then ban them when found doing so?
The honeypot feature works really well on Antispam Bee, catching out hundreds of spammers, and I feel that this system should also be applied on wpforo.