How does this get past the spam filter?

[socceronly]

I am on IPS Cloud hosting.  Perhaps I don't have it configured properly... but I seem to recall this service having Spam protection.  

How does something like....

"BUY COUNTERFEIT MONEY ,REAL AND FAKE DOCUMENTS"  

...in the title get past the Spam filter?

Getting a lot of this. 

 

[Colonel_mortis]

Because there is no spam filter. The ips spam service just checks the ip address, email and possibly username against a database of known spammers I think. It doesn't actually look at what is posted. 

[socceronly]

Ah.. I didn't realize that.  

Are there any good plug ins that connect to spam monitoring services like Akismet people would recommend? 

 

[ResPecT My Authoritah]

auroit antispam

[Rhett]

The best spam prevention is on registration, not after, this is where the built in tools are valuable.

1. Ensure you have the question and answer system setup for registrations, do not use a simple math or color question, get creative with your question, tailor it around the topic if your site and not something anyone can google the answer for.

2. Setup the IPS spam service to not allow registration on level 3 & 4, then adjust the others as needed to tighten things up, admin validation can be used also for some levels if needed.

3. Require email validation.

If you do the above, you won't have to deal with spam much at all. Keep in mind there are humans registering too, and spamming too, not much you can do about those, this is where the "Flag as spammer comes in though" Be sure to set that up as well to delete content, ban account etc, all with one click! 

 

The IPS Spam service uses a multitude of data and magic however to process registrations and score them, it's not a simple match against a single database though. 

 

 

[Joel R]

13 hours ago, Rhett said:

The best spam prevention is on registration, not after, this is where the built in tools are valuable.

1. Ensure you have the question and answer system setup for registrations, do not use a simple math or color question, get creative with your question, tailor it around the topic if your site and not something anyone can google the answer for.

2. Setup the IPS spam service to not allow registration on level 3 & 4, then adjust the others as needed to tighten things up, admin validation can be used also for some levels if needed.

3. Require email validation.

If you do the above, you won't have to deal with spam much at all. Keep in mind there are humans registering too, and spamming too, not much you can do about those, this is where the "Flag as spammer comes in though" Be sure to set that up as well to delete content, ban account etc, all with one click! 

 

The IPS Spam service uses a multitude of data and magic however to process registrations and score them, it's not a simple match against a single database though. 

 

 

Should turn this into a small community guide in Community Administration.

[Rhett]

10 hours ago, Joel R said:

Should turn this into a small community guide in Community Administration.