Stepashka Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 It’s getting really annoying when your board gets a little bit popular! You don’t have really powerful tools to block people who spam your board with there ads! I suggest developers will include one extra setting in ipb3 that allows you to set time that new users need to wait until they have the option to create a new topic or post. 7 days for example… I don’t think spammers have the pation to wait such a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Just moderate all new members posts. Myself and others have explained how to set this up in the past. After a couple of posts they then get auto promoted to a regular member group. Works at my busy site. 3DKiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 7 days for example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 They did something like this on HydrogenAudio forums. You had to wait 2 weeks before you could post. I had a critical bug to report and eventually forget due to that stupid wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous IPB User Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 I haven't had a spammer on my forum in a long time. What I did to eliminate this issue was to require a custom profile field when registering in which I specifically ask them to enter a four digit year (expected input is nnnn), but allow a maximum entry of 10 characters (bots will fill the box to the max and be denied registration) You can add a few more of these required profile fields for added security (I would suggest making sure they are relevant to your sites content of course). Before implementing this, I used to get a lot of spam on the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTM Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Some of the more advanced SPAM outfits are using human "bots" hired to do registrations and validations and being paid between $0.03 and $0.10 per validated registration on sites with larger member bases (i.e. over 1000 users) simply to get the exposure under the member directory. I think a combination of bot protection (captcha in various forms) and new posting moderation... (but not across-the-board multi-day delays) works.... There is no purely technical solution, IMHO. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 There is also flood control. If you want them to wait make them obey flood control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomicknight Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 There is no purely technical solution, IMHO.Not at the moment, no. But there are some companies that claim to have developed anti-spam systems based on behavioral patterns, which would likely solve most problems with bots (assuming that they work). Of course, such systems probably won't be available for some time (at least, effective systems probably won't be publicly available), so that's not really worth waiting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 Hey...who doesn't like Spam? :) Spam is everything for anything. Everyone loves Spam. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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