Was hoping someone could help -
I've recently become aware of my site userbase growing radically (5 people+ a day) and for a small fandom, and even smaller 'ship in that fandom this is abnormal for me.
Having looked at the accounts they all appear to be "bot" accounts - is there anything I can do to stop them signing up? I've managedd to remove them via phpmyadmin - but I fear by tomorrow another 5 will ave signed up.
Is there a mod / something I've missed in the settings that will prevent this?
I've just upgraded from 3.2.1 to 3.3 in the hopes that it might make a difference.
Hmm, I may have this too, but I'm not terribly diligent atm so I'd like to ask, "How do you tell if they are bots?"
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my clue to bots was the fact that all their email addresses were something like "abcde@hotmail.com" and the fact they all had "nice!" or "interesting" as their bio...
and thanks Jenny, I'd forgotten that there was a catchpa in the settings... *is stupid*
so I guess this is solved.
