Spam Posts With xF 1.2?

[tenants]

@nodle Customise your registration page with custom fields (it's the closest you'll get to using some of the FoolBotHoneyPot methods in core)
... This wont stop all the bots that fill forms by index order (that's still quite a lot), but it will stop bots that just fill the standard form ids/names

The core will always be targeted (so soft mechanism used by the core will always be bypassed), using APIs is the best solution for a core product, but that alone will never stop 100% of bots (even the API that I think will come in the future)

 

[MikeMpls]

I should add that since the site was upgraded to 1.2, a lot of the spam posts immediately go into moderation and are never displayed publicly nor seen by the members.

That's probably akismet at work.

With 1.1.4 & 1.1.5 out of the box and with guest posting disabled, profile spammers were my only significant issue.

KeyCaptcha fixes that, and also takes care of the guest-poster spammers. With 1.2, akisment will probably deal w/ the guest-post spammers, but I haven't yet enabled guest-posting on my 1.2 site to find out.

I've been told (forget what it's called) that there's another moving-image Captcha (a sliding toggle) that bots can't solve but which is less intimidating to humans than KeyCaptcha. If I need something more for my 1.2 site(s), I'm going to try this before KeyCaptcha.

 

[MikeMpls]

It's not that people are making post, it's just all the bots that are registering. I just want to stop those dead in their tracks from registering.

But to that you need to present them with challenge that no bot can solve. It's possible, see above.