_ wrote:It seems that a lot of the spammers will make an account and only write one post. Would it be possible to make it so a user can't put an image in their first post? or make it so you can't post images if you've been around less than N number of days? The captcha idea is also good. Something simple like that would at least stop the robots.
Not all spammers post images. Some are just a link in the sig. Limitations could work, but they're a huge pain in the rear for admins and/or mods. An effective method of blocking out spammers bots is to have a custom (unique to this forum,) question in the registration. Discussion about mods or changes to the forums software is a HUGE can of worms and I hope I didn't just open it.
