Well,

we have different kinds of spam, some of them are easy to fight, others don't.

Robots posting porns, forex related commercials and alike are easy to fight. However, you can´t avoid the post. So, if some robot post about a commercial site, this post will be public for some time between 1 minute to 30/45 minutes but most of the time it's moderated in the first 15 minutes.

The other kind of spam is where a person post a couple of post and then starts to spam. This is a bit difficult to detect than the other kind of spam because you have to check what is all about the post.

Newdigital will correct me if I´m wrong but right now spam is 50/50 both classes.

Good news is spam are coming in waves. Some weeks we only have 2/3 spam posts, other 2/3 per day.

I believe the best tool users have is the report tool. Or write a PM to the moderators but to all because if you wrote only to one and he´s sleeping (everybody needs to sleep) he would see the pm several hours later.

I like to note I've finished to read spammers have defeated Google Gmail validation. Imagine if Google and his millions cant control who is signing into gmail to spam what we could do.

The´re some ideas around but we can't discuss in public for obvious reasons.

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Newdigital,

If you are getting a lot of spam user registrations, I have dealt with this in my own private boards using phpbb. So far, I have not had any new unwanted spammer bots after I implements some simple changes to the code. If you do indeed have this problem, send me a PM, I can point you to the right codes to stop them.

Once they register, there is really no way to stop them from posting. So I take preventative action to stop them from registering. Then you can also implement another mod to prevent new users with less than x posts from posting urls. Anyways, good luck. I've been kicking back lately since there isn't any new bots to deal with.

ND

To stop the one post spammers with the sex, durgs, and PP' strechers. Mybe you should start a new rule for the forum that would restrict new members from posting till they have more then one post. That will stop the spamming here.

Keit


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Yes, it is good idea.

I just checked out your registration process. It is very weak. Your word recognition validation process in your registration is not enough anymore, instead, you should use simple questions that bots cannot answer.

The best way to prevent spam is to not allow spam bots to even register. Spam programmers are going to take the time to get around Google's gmail validation, but they are not going to take the time to crack individual sites like this. It is very easy to insert code into the registration process to prevent spam bots.

Hahahaha!!! We'd have a VERY informative discussion forum then, wouldn't we Newdigital? LOL!

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^^ Hehe, it'll be dead, not informative.

smart guys , maybe we should ask them to program some experts that would give them some money and keep them busy from posting spam

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