Definitely. I ran a forum with quite a few users, and spent way too much time dealing with spam. :( I've found that the best way to avoid forum spam is indirect

Definitely. I ran a forum with quite a few users, and spent way too much time dealing with spam. :( I've found that the best way to avoid forum spam is indirect methods. Instead of a captcha, I set an invisible section where only newbies could see - and that's the only area they could post. After one post there, they were upgraded to regular member.