Forum has problems with spam bots

[RoLa]

It seams to me that every 4-10 minutes there is an automatic registration of a spam bot user. Thats for several days now. Are you aware?

[Ze_PilOt]

Can't do much about it.

I have:
- Cloudflare anti spam protection
- Registration needing a valid email (and so passing google anti spam measures).
- anti-bot Q&A on registering.
- Bot filtering from several blacklists like stopforumspam.
- New User protection (can't post link, some keyword denied)

And still, some are going through.

[Gorton]

It's not a huge problem. It's a small increased workload to remove all the spamposts but it's not a problem for now.

[stalewee]

Perhaps the spam bots can be reasoned with.

[Nombringer]

They were writing poetry the other day so It's not entirely impossible

[IceDreamer]

Do we have some simple question in place such as "What is the name of the Cybran T1 Assault Bot? (Mantis)"? Things any player would know but would make it impossible for a bot to gain entry?

[Nombringer]

Do we have some simple question in place such as "What is the name of the Cybran T1 Assault Bot? (Mantis)"? Things any player would know but would make it impossible for a bot to gain entry?

- anti-bot Q&A on registering.

Yes we do, it has questions exactly like that. And they are still getting through.

[ZLO_RD]

Now i can't post from my mobile phone

[Ze_PilOt]

Should be fixed.
The problem is that if I don't tighten the bot detection, we are spammed. False positive may happens more often as these protections are added.

[Aurion]

Can't do much about it.

I have:
- Cloudflare anti spam protection
- Registration needing a valid email (and so passing google anti spam measures).
- anti-bot Q&A on registering.
- Bot filtering from several blacklists like stopforumspam.
- New User protection (can't post link, some keyword denied)

And still, some are going through.

Do you have a honeypot? I'm still having decent success with that in my dev job.