How do you fight against HUMAN spammers?

[snakes1100]

You could just use the keyword spam hack and black list their key spam words for the said promotion they are trying to post.

That will automatically move their posts to the moderation queue, you can then spam ban the user accounts from that point.

[GSeybold]

Just moderate all new members. If they spam once, ban them. Works for me.

[the stig]

I'm just curious. Is it a case of forum war? (meaning members from one forum goes to another forum and troll/spam?) did something happen between your forum and the other forum?

as some members suggested, simply moderate the "new user" usergoup. You'll find out who's trolling. I had a similar issue when members from another forum tried to spam our site. I have never banned so many people at once..haha But in my case, the other forum admin was VERY helpful. He helped me get rid of trouble makers.

[mp3u]

Originally Posted by Medtech

I use the vbstopforumspam modification as it uses a vast database of known spammer ip addys and usernames, a human spammer gets banned and submitted on one forum, his info is automatically blocked on all forums using the mod. I have been using it for a long time now. there are only so many ip addy's a spammer can use. also restricting url's with a limited number of posts helps too.

here is the vbstopforumspam page https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...bstopforumspam

This mod says it is for 3.6 - will it still work for 3.8x?

[gamerfu]

We are not in a forum war, nor are any of our Members/Moderators. It is another forum that keeps bothering us, and the other forums site admin think it is all in good fun. It isn't his problem because we are not over their messing up his boards.

I told our Moderators, we are not going to particpate in such non-productive activites. I have a life and so does everyone else. So let us not waste our time by fighting back, especially if one of our Super Mods went to talk to their Root Admin personally and got told he didn't give a flip what his members do outside his boards.

[trotskid]

Originally Posted by mp3u

This mod says it is for 3.6 - will it still work for 3.8x?

Works fine on mine (3.8.3).

[Medtech]

Originally Posted by mp3u

This mod says it is for 3.6 - will it still work for 3.8x?

yes, compatable vb versions are stated in the modification. so far this mod is compatable with vb 3.8.x

besides i am using it with vb 3.8.4