SMF anti-spam bots registration mod
Among other sites, I’m also an administrator on the romanian anime forum Manga-anime.ro. That forum is a SMF one and recently we had some problems with the spam bots registering our boards and spamming them with porn or pharmaceutical stuff. The root admin tried to install a SMF mod that should have prevented them from registering by making them solve some simple puzzles, but the mod just didn’t work. So I tried to make something myself, from scratch. I came with the idea of adding a simple math problem for them to solve: the sum of two numbers. The numbers are randomly generated from 1 to 5 so the sum should be pretty simple to solve by anyone. However, since I don’t know how SMF system works, this modification is not that complex or accurate.
In order to do this on your SMF site too, you must follow three simple steps. Read more…