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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?

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