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I am needing to upgrade my website to a VPS. I am wondering about some basic questions. Which OS seems to work the best with Invision paired with cPanel? Is LightSpeed webserver recommended or not?

Looking deeper into your suggestion, it might work as is, because there is a choice to remove the restriction after 2 posts for example. I will try this. Thank you.

So with this method, I would need to create a buffer GROUP, correct? Yes at the moment when someone registers, they go into the main group, 66K members at the moment. To do this method, I would need to put people into a Newbie GROUP, then when I know they are not a spammer move them into the main group? What if they are lurker? I will never know if they are a legit or spammer.

I have a lot of problems with spammers. Email registration is on Captcha is on etc. Their spam is link spamming. Either a post or link in contact form on their profile page. I tried to enable "moderator" all links, but that is not practical, so I turned that off because that is global and not user group controlled it seemed. What I would like to do is when a new member signs up, I would like them to be moderated for xx amount of posts. After they have made xx amount posts I know they are a legit member and they can post freely. If they have not met the min posts, all of their posts are moderated for example. Right now all the members go into a a "Members" group upon signing up. How do you suggest setting this up to help with all the spammers? I get about 4-5 spammers a day that go through the whole sign up process, validate their email and post spam...it's nuts to me.

I am having a problem with a users signing up on my board and all they do is fill up the ABOUT ME with a bunch of spam URL links. Some post sometimes spam, but most don't post, just fill in the About Me and abandon the website. For the signature page, you can go into Groups and say it takes 10 posts or setup some rule before a user can use the signature. But I don't see anything like that for the "About Me" page. Or can it be turned off completly? Also I am running the latest version of Invision, when I try to delete my Signature totally, it will not delete. I can change it to anything else, but if I try to clear the whole signature and save it, it will revert back. Here is a quick video. signature.mp4

Jim - you DA MAN. Thank you sir.

Is there a way to turn of HTML posting for example in this box that I am typing in right now? Or actually what the problem is, alot of people copy and paste something from another place on the web, and instead of just TEXT paste, it copies all the HTML garb with it... I have this SETTING turned off for MEMBERS, however it doesn't seemed to stop the HTML code for getting into the post.

Thanks so much for the help and advice everyone.

I run a forum board and one of the main products in my industry is called B&R. When any one tries to search for "B&R" in the search board of Invision Board, it comes up with nothing. I've tried B and R. I've tried quotes "B&R" etc Is there any settings or anything I can do to make this search query work? I thought it was fixed in a previous version but now since upgrading, the problem came back for me. Any suggestions or help? Pointers I could try?