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Re: Stop Forum Spam

Posted: Friday 22 April 2022 15:19
by tarmacalastair
Yep I just looked at his profile and he's made 14 posts in the last 24 hours, all of them SPAM....

Re: Stop Forum Spam

Posted: Friday 22 April 2022 17:20
by jvdz
@gizmocuz, Another extra option could be to add Authorized for URLs and set the option "If a match then deny" to No so these posts will come into the mod preview for new users.
This way these spammers posts that contain URLs will endup in the modqueue and the Mods get an auto notification to BanHammer them.
The small downside is that real members that initially post links will have to wait a little before their post is approved.

Re: Stop Forum Spam

Posted: Friday 22 April 2022 19:49
by FireWizard
Hi @jvdz,

You wrote:
The small downside is that real members that initially post links will have to wait a little before their post is approved.
I would not been in favor to do it that way. Many posts of regular (real) members contain URL, even to other forum posts,
The moderators should look to them all, just to filter out those spammers.

Most spammers subscribe to this forum, drop their spam and disappear.
As said, if you can only post one real post to the forum after you have subscribed to the forum it will solve a lot.
Then it is not possible to drop your spam in multiple threads. It will save the mods a lot of work.

Another way is that the mods look to the first posts of any new member, before to give him an upgrade.
I believe there are various alternatives, but we have to reduce it.

Regards

Re: Stop Forum Spam

Posted: Friday 22 April 2022 20:15
by jvdz
Nah ... this is just for newly registered members for the first xx posts. ;)
This would hide the posts and "automagically" warn the Mods.

Re: Stop Forum Spam

Posted: Tuesday 20 September 2022 15:07
by FireWizard
Hi,

Currently a user/bot, named ggaoiuaqw870 is spamming this forum again.
Today already 40 spam messages.

I'm also a member of other forums, but none is so sensitive as this forum for spammers.
C'mon stop these users. This should be possible!