How have you defeated the automated bot signups?

[Andrew]

Just wondering how the big boys do it

I use my forum as my community and as the main user registration system for my game. We authenticate our game client against the XenForo database.

What I would like to prevent, is the automated bot sign ups that plague all of us forum owners. Since our game isn't published yet, it is difficult to set up Question/Answer fields in the registration page.

I have read the XF documents but still wonder what solutions others have come up with.

Thank you for your reply and wisdom!

 

[AndyB]

Since our game isn't published yet, it is difficult to set up Question/Answer fields in the registration page.

Perhaps not. There might be a good question to use based general game knowledge.

 

[RandallC]

I will refer back to this post to help mostly.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/is-your-forum-being-hammered-by-bots.156431/

 

[djbaxter]

I will refer back to this post to help mostly.

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/is-your-forum-being-hammered-by-bots.156431/

Those are not bot registrations though, which is what the OP is asking about.

 

[RandallC]

Those are not bot registrations though, which is what the OP is asking about.

I must not be reading what you are reading.

is the automated bot sign ups that plague all of us forum owners.

In the thread I linked to, there are a few ways listed to prevent automated bots.

1. Start banning from server level with IP addresses,
2. Use Cloudflare
3. Use robots.txt
4. Stopforumspam
5. Q&A is effective and you can also use generic questions like What color is grass, What color is the sky, What Year is it,
or even questions like this " What year did the game start? (Answer: 2021) give them the answer to the question.
6. Use a plugin.

Good Luck