Simple Spam Fighting Steps

1) enable email confirmation, it will stop robots joining your site and make numerous of post just after joining.

2) Disallow joining/login for some countries - http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Configure-DNS-Blocklists.htm

3) enable Akismet

4) limit number of blog posts per hour/day, for example don't allow to post more than one blog post per one hour, you can do it from admin membership levels

5) https://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/spam-spam-spam-spam-IDEA-.htm#157136

All useful but hardly effective:

Email confirmation does not stop bots from joining your site.....

Akismet costs money.....

Limiting blog posts just slows things down. Bots will just come back every hour of every day. day in and day out, year in and year out, century in a ... well, you get the idea.

I made use of the ideas in the 'spam spam, spam, IDEA' post and have COMPLETELY solved my spam problem. Why won't you promote the ideas as well? The stuff you just posted here has been tried by just about everyone on this site, all with miserable results.

i am using recaptcha for the join form in my site and disabled the email confirmation. what you think will it stop the bot spam.

i thought that recaptcha is the best captcha on the web.

 Try the methods here;

http://www.boonex.com/forums/#topic/spam-spam-spam-spam-IDEA-.htm

This what skyforum is referring to;