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Will VB4 help control spammers

02-03-2012, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Rckcrwlr

I am adminning a site for a friend. He is on 3.8.4 and we are getting killed on spammers. I have added IP's to block and moderate all the new members...but this is getting old.

I want to get him up to 4.x.x. I have 4.x.x and I don't have any spammers.

Will this upgrade ease the volume of them?

Thanks
John

vBulletin does have a free anti-spam system (built in) that allows you to tap into the anti-spam database of akismet.com and antispam.typepad.com

Further there are some free 3rd party modifications which plug into the ant-spam databases of StopForumSpam.com and projecthoneypot.org and spamhaus.org

vBulletin also have build in captcha options (including Q & A human verification) and a lot of free 3rd party options for captcha.

So yes, vBulletin 4 can help restrict spammers.

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