Omniferum Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 There tends to be a fair bit of sporadic one post spam. Might be a good idea to just set up the forum so that every new member's first post has to be approved by a moderator first. A CAPTCHA style solution (if not CAPTCHA itself) might be decent as well. Like for each new member they are sent a human question (could be pre-set to save moderators the hassle) and if their is no reply or one that isn't anywhere close the mod can not approve it. It would obviously be easier to have this setup on the actual sign-up page but I remember reading some other posts where that would require extra work, this is just something i'm sure most forum software could implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I seriously can't believe how much spam is coming into the forum recently. It's as though 4 out of 5 posts are spam. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necrox Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 How about activating registrations manually by admin/mods to avoid auto-spamming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 I hope Flo will address this soon as it seems I have less and less time to contribute to banning people these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floele Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Manual activiation is a bit cumbersome. A captcha is actually present if you register a new account. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 * Automatic removal if they dont post within a certain time-frame. * Email activation link for all signups. * Automatic removal if the activation IP address is not the same as the signup IP. * Automatic removal if they setup more than one link within their signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 A captcha is actually present if you register a new account. Sorry Flo... I wasn't aware you had already implemented captcha. I think the new 'approval process' will be effective. THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necrox Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 I think it is effective. Two new registration within the last 3 days and both without any "ad link" signature. That's a huge difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn Posted May 31, 2011 Report Share Posted May 31, 2011 Yep. I'm lovin' it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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