Soft ban for mods to keep spam bots at bay

[alexh]

Hmm, I wonder if it was because it was just 3 characters??

Can you tell from the stats how many subscriptions were attempted and failed on that question?

[Amiga1992]

custom question's answer should be:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious



You should put a CAPTCHA, it works well.

[RCK]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

The recent update by RCK that introduced new methods to keep the spam bots outside is not working very well . There must be very clever programmed bots out there that it will be nearly impossible to keep them away with just automatic methods.
My question is if 'normal' mods should have the right to temporary ban users (spam bots). When a bot occurs there is most of the time a mod active, so it would be IMHO very effective.
What do you think about it?

If the spam level comes back to somethink awfull, I may allow regular mods to ban user, but it's something I would prefer to not do.
At least right now spam should be fully stopped as we don't accept new user until I setup one new protection process.

[Anemos]

one think..
maybe you can close thats IP bots ,at start numbers like 223.222.*.* ect..