[LetItSnow]

I'm told by one of my fellow local admins that a good share of car forums have been getting high spam traffic recently (including the one we run, of course). We switched from captcha to a question to answer, and the source just changed from exclusively Chinese IPs to a combination of Chinese and other worldwide IPs (mostly European).

Try not to cuss at the admins too much; no matter what they do, it'll be considered wrong. Anyone who's willing to do volunteer work in a forum is probably not doing a half-assed effort, and a no-win situation like this can only be tended to by a best guess.

Ridding the world of spam is not something any admins can do; I volunteer the loudest cussers to find the solution!