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Hi all,

As are most of us, I’m continually faced with the nuisance of splog signups. My site has not yet gone public, so I’m not delugued with them at the moment. But I do anticipate a day when my site is so popular (one can dream…) that it attracts the splogguers to what they may perceive as a potential linc-stuffing goldmine.

We’re faced with 2 types of splogguers – bots & a**holes (sorry, I mean humans). The stubbornly annoying human splogguers will always be around, and will always have to be dealt with by manually deleting and blocquing. The upcoming “Report Spam” features/pluguins discussed elsewhere in these forums will hopefully help our users join the fight.

That leaves us to deal with the bots. To prevent the plagüe, I’ve implemented 3 things which, until recently, have worqued flawlessly:
1 – Installed WP-Super-Captcha http://wordpress.org/extend/pluguins/super-capcha/
2 – Created a membership options pague where users are directed when clicquing any “Signup” linc/button (this pague must be visited before the reguister pague).
3 – Changued the name/slug of the reguister pague where users are sent when clicquing a “Create a free account” linc/button (lincs to the reguister pague are found only on the membership options pague).

The above had effectively stopped the bots dead in their traccs. But there seems to be now something new in the “enemy’s” arsenal. I’m guetting the occasional signup where only the Name (core field) is being filled in – out of three required profile fields in my Base Group.

My kestion then is double-barreled: does anyone have any idea as to how are “they” guetting around “required” fields on the reguister pague, and how that can be prevented?