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Originally Posted by Chris is me
The question doesn't have to be hard to thwart spambots. They are not targeting Chief Delphi in particular - the bots sweep the web and post to any vBulletin forum they can find. If the registration question is as simple as "Who founded FIRST?" or "What is the acronym for FIRST Robotics Competition?" it would probably work.
Honestly, there is no need to be needlessly restrictive and make this community harder to enter just because there's a handful of spam threads a day.
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Most of the new spambots actually rely on a human somewhere (usually somewhere halfway across the world) to confirm any tricky things in the registration process, then use bots to post.