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thenewuser 06-03-2010 05:07 AM

How do You battle Spam?
 
Hello!

We are being attacked by all sorts of spammers on our forums and I thought it would be nice if everyone shares their successes with battling spam.

We cut down 95% of the spammers by blocking all Asian IPs from our forum. Yes, very drastic but our forums are aimed at US/Canada and EU markets.

We noticed that most of the spammers were live people and not bots!!! Which means that CAPTCHAs and the like did no good against them.

We noticed that the remaining spammers are all using @gmail.com for their emails. We are hesitant to ban gmail, of course.

We found this mod very useful!
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...156444&page=28

So, how are you battling spammers?

Wired1 06-03-2010 07:47 AM

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=230921" target="_blank">vbStopForumSpam</a>

thenewuser 06-03-2010 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wired1 (Post 2047506)

Hey, thank you, this looks promising....

Xencored 06-03-2010 10:00 AM

Ive never Had one bot get in my forums all of them :)

reCAPTCHA™
and this mod i use
:D

Edit jsut seen this is 3.8 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201287) this mod

thenewuser 06-04-2010 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Animemike (Post 2047539)
Ive never Had one bot get in my forums all of them :)

reCAPTCHA?
and this mod i use
:D

Edit jsut seen this is 3.8 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201287) this mod

Hey thank you!!! Since I installed the other poster's, posted mod all spam has stopped, well that and blocking all Asian IPs. :P

I will look into these as well, then unblock all Asian IPs and report back.

Thank you.

Rafa-el 06-04-2010 12:34 AM

Akismet+StopForumSpam+Captcha = 0 Spammers ;)

Sean James 06-04-2010 01:34 AM

StopForumSpam has stopped all my spam bots :D

funmasti 06-04-2010 05:11 AM

StopForumSpam really works like a charm

thenewuser 06-08-2010 03:52 AM

I must say that after a week of StopForumSpam I only had one spammer, and he was already registered form a while ago.

:-)


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