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Options to Deal with Spammers
My Forum is about to launch in a couple of days. Nobody knows about my Forum YET. Until I start my promotions. But a few Spammers seem to have somehow found my site. I had to ban them and their IPs. Both Spammers signed up with 2 Accounts each in order to Spam my site with their product. There is only 2 registered Users on my site at the moment. Myself and one of the few people that I told about my site. Spamming a Forum that only has 2 registered users. Spammers are a brilliant bunch.
I would like to be able to set minimums on the number of posts required before a user could put links in their post, put images in their post, have a signature, send PMs to other Users. Most Spammers sign up to a Forum and Spam with their first and second post. I`d probably set the number of posts required at 5 to do all of the above. That means that nobody can have images, links, or signatures in their posts unless they have made at least 5 posts. And no PMs to other members until at least 5 posts have been made. A high enough number to make it more work for a Spammer, and low enough so it should not annoy my legitimate users. Maybe even set a maximum number of posts that a user can make on their first day of being registered. That would make it easier to deal with a Spammer before they can make a lot of posts. I have only been a Vbulletin user since the day before the Gold release. Still trying to get familiar with everything that it does. I know that 2 Spammers is not a big deal. I`m sure that many of you have to deal with a lot of Spam. I am just trying to find ways to help control Spam before I launch my Forum. Once I launch my Forum and people start to find out about it and lots of pages get indexed by the Search Engines, then there will be a lot more Spammers that will find my site. Is there any settings in Vbulletin 4.0 that will do any of the above? Any Mods available that will help eliminate Spammers? Thanks! |
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