How to stop spam?

[Gordino]

My board has been getting bombarded by spam, Yesterday we had around 30,000 spam posts on it which took me all day to clear off

Anyone got any good tips / add ons for preventing spam?

Thanks!

[noppid]

Install Stop the Registration Bots.

Of course there are other options here and in vBulletin itself that you could implement.

[Gio~Logist]

There's also been a few changes with vb recently as well as suggestions made over on vb.com. Feel free to check em out :up:

[UKBusinessLive]

Check out this thread for some help and tips
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...23#post1660123

[InsaneNutter]

I realise this post is kind of old, however nothing suggested really worked for me so I thought that I would share how I eventually managed to stop spam.

Basically I installed the Keyword weight based spam detector plugin for vBulletin and spam has been a thing of the past

I have posted up a more detailed writeup here about the problem I was having and how this plugin managed to solve it. http://mattyonline.com/2010/06/05/an...powered-forum/

I hope this is of help to people

[mahz]

I have a decently sized/active forum and cured my spam problems, so I'll throw in my 2c:
- I don't even use vBulletin's "Spam Management" functionality.
- I use NoSpam! with two questions that cycle.
- I also use the Auto-Moderate Evading Banned Members mod which is downright amazing. It makes a new thread in private moderator-only subforum when someone registers on an IP that matches any IP on file for anyone on the ban list (or if they share a cookie). In the thread, it displays the registrant and the list of banned usernames that share the IP allowing for moderators to discuss what should be done about it.
- My registration also uses ReCaptcha, which I'm pretty sure I had to specific somewhere in the options before. Maybe it's default nowadays.

Bots can't get past the ReCaptcha + NoSpam! questions, and repeat human offenders get silently placed in moderation queue while my moderators get alerted. Works great.