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10-27-2009, 07:33 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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What to do about spam?
I've been receiving spam in my support forum. It wouldn't even be for the same thing either. It would always be something different and random. So far I have banned the IPs that have posted it and increased my forum's spam filter, but I'm almost positive it'll come back. Any ideas on what I can do?
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10-27-2009, 08:15 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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what forum software is this? add recaptcha or something.
if you use mybb, it supports Akismet checking for every single posted message.
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10-27-2009, 08:47 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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its PhpBB3
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10-27-2009, 08:59 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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do you have captcha enabled? search phpbb's forums for some antispam plugins
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10-27-2009, 09:39 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Install a decent CAPTCHA that includes some distortion in the image (so it cannot be read easily via OCR techniques) and you should be able to cut out most of the spam.
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10-27-2009, 09:50 PM #6Temporarily Suspended
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These spammers never stop now using OCR to continue spaming geez.
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10-27-2009, 10:59 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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I would recommend adding a Anti Bot Question to your phpBB3 forum. I run a personal forum for a small game community and I have never used a CAPTCHA. However, I have used a Anti Bot Question and so far it has worked wonders. In just over 18 months, we have had not 1 single spammer register.
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10-28-2009, 12:30 AM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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I second the suggestion of using an antibot question. That with recaptcha won't be perfect, but will do wonders to keep the cruft from your forums.
Most of forum customers we host have both setup and find the slightly longer registration a fair trade for reducing spam. Another suggestion is to make the Anti Bot question relevant to the forum if possible as most forums employ a very simple math problem.
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10-28-2009, 12:33 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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I highly recommend installing/configuring mod_security as well, which can do a great job stopping some bots.
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10-28-2009, 11:09 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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Use the simple MOD for phpbb that will stop from adding new members to the member's list until approved by Admin. But anyone clicking on 'latest member' will see their profile.
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10-28-2009, 12:01 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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A simple Idea would be to ban the ip for ever....
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