Bot Registrations have long been a problem with running a forum. The Nova Forums generally see between 2-4 bot registrations per day which takes up time by having to ban / delete their accounts and IP's, not to mention all of the annoying ads for Viagra, WoW Gold and Aion Accounts.

Since our forum has reCAPTCHA enabled creating a Human Verification Question / Answer is not supported by vBulletin "out of the box", here is a workaround for this problem:

AdminCP -> User Profile Field... [Read More]

This guide explains how to add Aion Character information into the Postbit on your vBulletin forum. You could use a similar hack for just about any modern day MMORPG that has a profile system in place.

We will be creating a Custom User Profile Field and inserting it into our vBulletin Template.


Creating the User Profile Fields

User Profile Fields are just variables that your forum's users can assign values to through their User Control Panel. Login to your vBulletin Admin pane... [Read More]