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Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
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Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
I want to add my experiences with spam handling here. My website indianfootballnetwork.com used to get 15-20 spammers daily until I installed StopForumSpam and activated email validation(I removed ReCaptcha as I felt it was useless like someone above mentioned). This was effective only to some extent as StopForumSpam can… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
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Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
a) confirm email, using stopforumspam, botstop ( original ) and akismet. With this we get a spam bot every month or so. However from a previous misconfiguration; we have a list of ips that are blocked by a script I wrote ( grab ip and insert it to the ban table ) it seems this method has blocked many attempts so far ). -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
yes, any known exploits, such as the default activity permission set, make it a ripe target. They also target forums in general and use generic, application unique, searchable messages like this to find forums, wikis and other fertile ground for planting garbage. I'll be working to modify these default messages soon. that… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
thx for answering poll. edited: jeongwee, you were probably laughing about my joke to block forum members from china. :) if you use approval registration and registration restrict plugin - you might keep the automated spammers from registering. as far as spam in discussions - I think the other plugins mentioned might deal… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
Depending on your target audience another option is editing your htaccess so folks from China, Russia and other high spam areas can't access your site. In my case I run a small US/Canada/Europe gaming community, so it was a no brainer. if you do a Google search for "block China IP" you'll find sites with info on how to do… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
I have 6 installations , I use confirm email on 4, botstop with a hard question , recaptcha . I changed to invitation on two to see what would happen. I think the one that gets the most spam is the applicant , when in that mode of approval. I only got superspammed before using BotStop with massive applicant bots and got… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
Asking. Would it make sense if we share banlist-entries to make a super-banlist. So everyone can install those. I might be good to put it somewhere not too obvious for SPAM-programmers, but still have em where users can find. :/ It's rarely a lot of domains and mail-services so i guess the Spammers do not refactor their… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
well hello; Reading all of you story and let me say i feel you; I have your problem in addition to this: I use cloudflare for my dns resolver and I think this is part of my problem. the part that I can't do anything about with my current situation. As I write; it is about 5 hours that I got vanilla from here and installed…
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