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So the good news is that our current setup (Stop Forum Spam, reCAPTCHA v2, DNS Block List, and Project Honey Pot all enabled and configured) prevents spam accounts from making visible posts, but it still results in a high volume of spam registrations (I'd estimate 50-100 per day) on our forums.

I'd prefer not to make our CAPTCHA even more difficult because I don't want to annoy real humans trying to create accounts to join the community, but I admit it's bothersome to have to sift through...

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