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This isn't necessarily a matter for NexAds support, but I am asking the community for some feedback...so if this is moved, that's fine.

Long story first:  when I first started the Forums, I had some problems with spambots, mostly from Ukraine.  They had solved the countermeasure fairly easily and mucked up my boards.  So I changed things around a bit: first, banning the sites by IP, and second, instituting a Q-and-A test for registration instead.  And I lucked upon one that works very, very well, because when you feed the question into Google, you get the wrong answer.

The question is, in what city is my company located?  Google returns the home city of a larger and very similarly named company.  My own company is the second hit, and while that is not ideal with regards to growing my business, it's very good when stopping Ukrainian (and other) spammers right in their tracks.  I haven't had a problem since.

However, because of the ads here, I now have registrants who could come from anywhere on the globe and wouldn't necessarily know what city I'm in.  So I added a link to a short information page about my company that's located through a link right there on the registration page, which contains the name of the city we are headquartered in.

If you have a chance, please head over to my forums (the link is in the sig), click on the Register link (and the click-through agreement), and see if you understand the question and the information provided for it.  The goal is to be easy for any human to understand, but impossible for a spammer to get, even when using Google.