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jorgecardoso YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 42	Spam blocking Aug 8th, 2008, 12:26pm   Hi, Is it me or have the spam messages have increased in the last weeks? Although its not at a concerning level yet, I think it would be best to take some measures now (if there aren't already in place), like using CAPTCHAs on registration (or make the user answer a question). regards, jorge
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fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: Spam blocking Reply #1 - Aug 8th, 2008, 4:41pm   yeah, it's gotten really bad. we have several thousand spam bots that have signed themselves up for user accounts. we're looking into a solution on how to fix it but haven't been able to yet.

CongoZombie Junior Member Offline Posts: 52	Re: Spam blocking Reply #2 - Aug 10th, 2008, 5:16am   Ok, it just got a lot worse. I just saw one spam thread with a load of porn images embedded... Is there a way to have some kind of "spam report" feature for a thread? (I suppose this is something that would have to have been included in YaBB?)
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fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: Spam blocking Reply #3 - Aug 10th, 2008, 1:30pm   we have to upgrade to a new version of yabb. we hope to do this sometime in the next few days.

fjen God Member Offline Posts: 965	Re: Spam blocking Reply #4 - Aug 10th, 2008, 6:09pm   just added a captcha to the register page. F