Can we do something about the spam?

[tommiehansen]

This still is an issue.

It seems that the bots can somehow circumvent the Google Recaptcha v2 so that really needs to be fixed.
Also replace the math captcha with something else, as said -- math captchas has been broken since the 90's.
It's basically a NULL-method to combat spam.

Also do the other things suggested:
1. Remove traces of anything 'M*BB' or 'Powered by' (this will prevent future spam) * = y
2. Remove anything 'Theme designed by' (also to prevent future spam)
3. Remove agreement-stuff at register since this is something that is simple to search for (and confirm as a M*BB) * = y
4. Remove this entire thread since it's filled with phrases simple to search for (and thus confirm as M*BB) * = y

[askmike]

It's a tough battle, deleting spammers every day. Will look into removing the mybb mentions like tommiehansen suggested.

[MeanSquaredError]

It's a tough battle, deleting spammers every day. Will look into removing the mybb mentions like tommiehansen suggested.

askmike, you can try the following:

1. Edit the forum post form and add a hidden field with an empty value.

2. Add a mouseover and touch events to the submission button and in these events populate the button with some value.

3. In the server-side code that handles new threads and thread replies add a check whether the hidden field contains the populated value. If the hidden field does not have the populated value just silently drop the posting without displaying any error.

I did this on my own phpbb forum and this worked great eliminating all spam. There is no guarantee that it will work for you, but it is worth trying.