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Spam, Spam, Spam - K2 Help!

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9 years 4 months ago #144188 by Geoffrey Mack
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I get about 20 spammer registrations on my site daily. I've got captcha installed and it helps a bit (I used to get hundreds daily.) But I need more and K2 is a bottleneck/problem in this regard. If I want to use K2 registration I have limited options. Some things I'd like to see in K2 that would help:

* Allow me to use any other captcha system - I understand that nocaptcha will be supported soon, but this is not enough. I need many more choices.
* Allow me to create a custom question - Real users registering on my site will know the answer to a question that I can ask.
* Integrate other spam blocking systems - There are systems out there that check against black lists and white lists... I can't use them with K2

Is anybody else getting this problem with spam registrations? Have you found any solutions?

Oh, yes, before you ask, I have eliminated all reasons for a spammer to register... they can't comment or create articles or send email. They are just dumb bots registering for no good reason.

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9 years 4 months ago #144195 by Geoffrey Mack
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Is it just me? I've had 5 more spam registrations since this post... in just two hours.

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9 years 4 months ago #144205 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Spam, Spam, Spam - K2 Help!
You can also add Stopforumspam.com
If there are getting past stopforumspam and reCaptcha, then it is possible that real people are creating these accounts.

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9 years 4 months ago #144233 by Geoffrey Mack
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Nope. I don't believe they are real people. According to Google Analytics I have about 10 unique visitors per day. Somehow this translates into 20 or more user registrations per day.

I need more options to eliminate spam.

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9 years 4 months ago #144244 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Spam, Spam, Spam - K2 Help!
Did you enable stopforumspam?
You can deactivate K2's recaptcha, switch to Akismet and try other security extensions.
If this does not stop then they are indeed humans behind this.
I have see this before, they even signed up through FB (a bot does not have a phone).

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