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How to stop forum spam?
Hello, My Vanilla forum is being spammed at the moment. I have 1 new fake member every 5 minutes, each posting a lot of spams messages. I have "stop forum spam" plugin since the launch, and "akismet antispam". I can't delete all the members : they make fake accounts faster. How can I solve the problem? My forum :… -
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So I just remove the spammers one by one and I set to manually confirm the new ones... it seems to work, but it's not very convenient for the new real members... (I have also google recaptcha v2, so I really don't understand how I have so many spams since yesterday). (my version is the last one, 3.2). -
Re: How to stop forum spam?
@xatanael I've been inundated for the last 40 hours or so too. New accounts every 3 to 7 minutes, woke up to an entire front page of spam threads this morning. I thought maybe updating Vanilla might help (I'm on 2.6), but you're on Vanilla 3? Combatting it so far: I've added ban rules for a ton of very dubious looking… -
Re: How to stop forum spam?
@drcongo: We all know this weakness of Vanilla and other forums. See if this can help you. Look at the IP adresses country origin, do also check your analytics software and try to find out if the SPAM bots are coming from a certain country. The IP adresses will likely give you an answer if so. Then block this country's IP…
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