Originally Posted by
Nemanja
I'm always for prevention rather that fixing things later...
I don't know how things are working for Joomla, but for VB you have many addons that you can install which will make certain things to the registration form to prevent boots registering and this is the worst problem, I'm also using captcha + email confirmation + ...
But people will join manually, so you need to prevent them from posting junk to your forum and in their or other members profiles, luckily for me VB have some great default user management options,
so you can divide your members into categories, I have one category which is most critical and these are "just registered members", for them I have restricted anything possible that can be restricted for making spam links or other spam messages...
So they need to wait 7 days and reach minimum of 25 posts to have sigs and post live links, also then they can edit their profiles, post profile messages, get bigger mailbox, etc... after they reach 100 posts and they are members for 15 days, they become full members and have much more options, etc...