looks like were being bombed with spammers

[mozr]

Aye.

I think as well as the question on registration Jimmy needs to enable captcha as well.

Spam is the pube in the soup of life.

[Capt-Cudellez]

No point getting angry at robots idontdrink - aye its a pain in the arse, but I'm sure Jimmy will get a handle on it.

[Jimmy]

They must have updated their techniques, it has been pretty quiet up to now but something has changed in the past few days. I'll sort it!

[Jimmy]

Tried a new anti-spam method but we still had one tonight so going to try a more involved one... it's a pain but hopefully it'll help.

[Andy]

Jimmy, we setup a custom profile field that is required.
It has a minimum requirement of 6 characters, this along with the captcha has all but stopped the spammers.
Hope this helps.
PS, we also dumped cloudflare for reasons I wont go into here.

[Jimmy]

We did have a simple question and answer which was working OK but looks like they cracked it. I've switched to a Re-Captcha but we still had a spam post tonight - looks like there were some dormant users that had registered a week or so back and were waiting to start spamming. Therefore I've deactivated any accounts that were registered but had never posted - sorry if that affects any genuine users but you should be able to reactivate or else drop me a line and I'll sort it out.