I finally got fed up with spam registrations and the old-fashioned way of banning IP address which had limited effectiveness.

I did some digging and discovered trends in bot registrations in regards to required (and optional) fields on our forum. Based on those trends I was able to auto-ban/moderate a considerable amount of bots before they even had a chance to spam my forum.

After some additional tweaking and adding code to check this site (SFS), I've pretty much eliminated spammers from registering!

I just coded in my auto-submit function for definite spammers, so I hope to contribute as much as I can to this site so that others won't have to go through the same headaches.

I do check my banned users daily. It's so much quicker than having to deal with dozens of reported posts every morning!

Thanks again and keep up the good work!