Simple way to stop spam signups (Page 1 of 2)

So would a timezone of GMT trigger the error?

the spam is getting WAY out of hand with punbb I am getting hundreds. I just added this tweak in hopes it will help cut down on some of it. Thanks!

yeah i looked at that one but after seeing the complaints of members getting banned who were not spamming and no ability to adjust the settings i passed.

Would be nice if you posted the mod.
And it would be ALOT better with a image generator that said "what is 4 plus 5?" so that parsers can´t read it.

Edit:
like this: http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

Thanks, I did something like that, then also modified post.php to reject guest posts which contain URLs.

i have one major site that! what i do is created a new user group that i monitor atleast 3 times aday and i call it newbies. if i dont see a friends email addy i purge it... simple... i got it where they cant post, view, or do anything with out being moved up to a member status.
and i added a
box like this before you can go to the register file.
which i rename to something completely different.
and edit the functions.php and the login.php to the new location of my (tos)

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Emancipator, I've been using the Akismet mod and it's working great.

http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=1850

Thanks Guys for the feedback. I tried this on my Halo site and it seemed to work well but the forum was to small to really tell. I will know better on this other forum. That said, HCG i like the idea of Akismet but hate how i have 0 control over it which is why i have not used it.

it must be a new mod. I was hunting for hours a week or so ago and this was the best option I found ( the date change ). A captcha box your right is the best choice.

tks buddy i am gonna check it out!

both the timezone 'none' mod and the math mod are ingenious solutions to these spam bots signing up! askimet is far too complicated and has too many false negatives to be dealt with. askimet and captcha are not the best solution to your spam problems. i've seen 1000s of spambots get past those with ease.

hi all, I'm a brand new newbie. ;)
sorry for my bad English! :P

I used the work of Savvy as inspiration for a math registration check based on a simple sum.
But, in this case, the textfield is disabled and its value can be modified only by clicking on two "+" and "-" buttons: I think (or I hope) that this operation can't be easily do by a bot.

this is the code.

header.php:

locate the line that starts with:

(1)

<script type="text/javascript">

and before it add this line:

<?php $max=10; ?>

this is the maximum value that the two values to be added can reach.
then, after the (1) line, put this:

var max=<?php echo $max; ?>;
var randomValue1=Math.floor(Math.random()*max);
var randomValue2=Math.floor(Math.random()*max);
var theSum=randomValue1+randomValue2;
max*=2;

function upAndDown(the_form, sign){
    var theValue=the_form.elements["mathValue"].value;
    if(sign=="+" && theValue<max) theValue++;
    else if(sign=="-" && theValue>0) theValue--;
    the_form.elements["mathValue"].value=theValue;
}

this is the JavaScript code that generates the sum value and that controls the behavior of the "+" and "-" buttons. put this code before the process_form function.
well, now inside the process_form function, locate the } that close the for and, afer it, put this code:

        if (the_form.elements["mathValue"].value != theSum){
            alert("The sum result is not correct.\nPlease retry.");
            the_form.elements["mathValue"].focus();
            return false;
        }

the work on the header.php file is over.

register.php:

in this file, put the following code in the position you like (according to the div structure):

            <div class="inform">
                <fieldset>
                    <legend>A little math (and antispam) question</legend>
                    <div class="infldset">
                        <p><script type="text/javascript"> document.write('What is the result of '+randomValue1+'+'+randomValue2+'?'); </script></p>
                        <div class="rbox">
                            <input type="button" name="buttonDown" onclick="upAndDown(this.form, this.value);" value="-" /><input type="text" name="mathValue" maxlength="2" size="2" value="0" disabled /><input type="button" name="buttonUp" onclick="upAndDown(this.form, this.value);" value="+" />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </fieldset>
            </div>

tha's all. :)
I hope this work may be useful for someone: thanks again to Savvy for his great idea. ;)

bye all