Every now and then I would get a bunch of new members and they would post porn all over the place, so i started make the registration process harder. When that didnt stop them I finally set it so i had to manually activate a member. So every now and then I would get emails from spammers wanting to join
Well it finally got real bad. My phone was about to bust with all the emails coming in!
Did a little searching in the SMF Forums and it turns out there is a ReCaptcha plugin available. The install had a little hitch. It wasnt pasting some code before the last ?> in the Modifications.english.php file so when i would go to turn on the feature the words were not there. Just blank boxes. Im using a custom theme so at first i went to make sure it worked in the default theme and then came back to the custom theme and modified its version of the modifications.english.php
All good now.
See if the spammers stop.
BTW
ReCaptcha is google owned now and they are doing cool things with it.The words you try to guess are actually words that it has scanned from Googles book scanning projects. So every time you enter a captcha you are helping google with its OCR.
nifty!
