IPB Guest Posts Feature Useless because does not stop spam bots to post even Captcha is ON

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After investigation by IPB I am being told Spam Bots managed to go thru Captcha and post entries...

Unfortunately, this isn't going to work as you imagine for posts generated by spam bots since they typically won't load the editor/UI/JavaScript but make direct POST requests to submit content.

I had to turn guest post off

I open this topic to discuss our what we can do about this spam bots....

I am still using the word filter, for example, the last spam had the following: 

инвесторов

порно маленькими девушками бесплатно

are two examples above which I have added to the word filter. What I do notice is that there is less spam attempted, but they still get past the word filter somehow. I think the word filter helps but obviously isn't a way to stop this. I have no idea how they get around the word filter block. 

 

I had to turn guest post off

Our non profit has allowed guest to post without registering and now we want to turn it off and only allow guests to view and not able to post unless registering. How do I turn this off? I can't find where we allow guest to post without registering. Can someone please help me find where to turn guest posting off please? We can't keep deleting Russian spam which is relentless. Those Russians simply don't give up and find ways around the word filter. 

Log in to the ACP and type "Post before" into the search bar, and click the 'Post before registering' result.

Alternatively - go to System -> (SETTINGS) Posting and scroll down to the 'Posting' section

@bradybarrows I highly recommend the Cleantalk plug-in. The service is $8 a year and it has a feature to allow you to block by country of IP address origin. It has been a massive relief for me.

I have no affiliation with Cleantalk except as a longtime happy customer.

 

 

Log in to the ACP and type "Post before" into the search bar, and click the 'Post before registering' result.

Alternatively - go to System -> (SETTINGS) Posting and scroll down to the 'Posting' section

Thanks. So I switched from the top choice to the lower post DISABLED and guests can still post before registering. We don't want any guest anymore to post unless the guest subscribes. There is some other setting that allows guest to post without registering or subscribing. Please assist. 

Then I kept searching and found where the permissions are set: 

ACP > Members > Groups > Guests > LOCK 

and uncheck where the guests are allowed to post. 

Edited June 28, 20222 yr by bradybarrows