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[spoontang]

Thanks a ton Rick. I understand it is alot of work, time and expense. It is unfortunate predators try to crash computers, sell trash and waiste our valuable time. This has always been a great site and it sounds like it will bounce back. The season is winding down for me and it will soon be time to knock some ducks out of the sky.

Thank you Rick for your attention to this matter.

[Walleye_Rick]

Auto Bot Spammers are still hitting the site hard even after I updated to latest version and put a filter in place with image letters that users have to key into the system.

The new version has a 'must answer' question that I will try to implement. Not sure how it works and it may keep anyone from registering for a while but at least the spamming will stop till I can get this under control.

Thanks for everyone's patience,

Walleye Rick, Administrator

[Walleye_Rick]

OK, here is an update on my quest to slow down the auto 'bot' robot spammers. Now, when new users attempt to register they must answer a simple question. The trick is that I give them the answer. For example the question could be:

What is the forum all about? Answer is fishing.

Then the user needs to type in 'fishing' as the answer. this is a technique that confuses the auto 'bots' as they are not sophisticated eneogh to figure this out. Hopefully our fellow fishermen coming and registering to this site don't find this too confusing.

Any/all feedback with this approach would be appreciated. GOOD FISHING!

[Saltshaker]

Cool...but I am curious how are you getting regsistered spammers from the updated version when just using the image letters...I always hated typing those letters bc they are always hard to see or know what it may be half the time but I understand its for this very issue so I dont care. But how is an autobot putting/typing image letters as well??? are they designed to counter this somehow??
Thanks again for your efforts.

OK, here is an update on my quest to slow down the auto 'bot' robot spammers. Now, when new users attempt to register they must answer a simple question. The trick is that I give them the answer. For example the question could be:

What is the forum all about? Answer is fishing.

Then the user needs to type in 'fishing' as the answer. this is a technique that confuses the auto 'bots' as they are not sophisticated eneogh to figure this out. Hopefully our fellow fishermen coming and registering to this site don't find this too confusing.

Any/all feedback with this approach would be appreciated. GOOD FISHING!