XF 2.0 Stop massive influx of spam

[cmeinck]

I'm running the latest release of XenForo. I've tried Recaptcha, Q&A, but nothing seems to stop this massive influx of spam. Every morning I have three pages of spam that requires cleaning up.

I welcome any and all recommendations.

 

[duderuud]

What are your Q&A's?

 

[cmeinck]

I just changed it to What's the last name of the CEO of Apple. It's an iPhone forum.

 

[AndyB]

I just changed it to What's the last name of the CEO of Apple. It's an iPhone forum.

I predict that won't help. It's too easy to understand and look up the answer. Q&A really only works on a forum with a more narrow subject matter.

 

[cmeinck]

Are there any robust add-ons to combat spam? For 1.0, I used a number of add-ons, but not sure if anyone has built them for 2.0. This Q&A did nothing to stop it.

 

[siONtI]

You can use this add-on https://xenforo.com/community/resources/allowedemails.6021/ and allow registrations only from popular e-mail providers like outlook/gmail/yahoo/gmx etc.

And this add-on to ban spam email hosts https://xenforo.com/community/resources/ban-disposable-or-spam-email-hosts.5939/

 

[Martok]

What are your settings in Spam Management in the ACP? A screenshot would be useful.
Have you got a Project Honey Pot key?
Have you got an Akismet API key?

Q&A does work but it's worth using more than one question and making the questions a bit more niche so that they cannot be answered by bots.