Trade Me shutting down MBs

[nzoomed]

Good heavens. How do I know I'm not a bot though zoomie? These lockdown days my confused moments are definitely on the increase. Yesterday for a while there I was convinced I could not be bullied by the cat.

Nice to see you back

The registration has a fairly easy answer for humans to answer by any members from the "old" forum, but a bot should not be able to answer correctly.
Believe it or not, some bots are still answering it correctly, but spam numbers have reduced significantly.

I may add automatic registrations soon, but still seeing a few accounts with international IP addresses and ones that are blacklisted.
Problem is some people use VPN's, so is not an accurate way to gauge.
If we have enough moderators, we should be able to deal with the small number of these spam accounts if required.