Got heavily spammed today, need advice!

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Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I have blocked spam on many sites as well and am usually successful but it depends on the topic and the permissions on the site.Some niche topics drive spam made by site owners and not really professional spammers. In addition, when able to apply permissions that moderate posts with links or block links they rarely if ever get through but on those sites where links are allowed there is no way to stop someone if they manually create a new account, verify email, etc.

Yep, there is but it is in beta and I am still trying to convince Ozzy to code it and release it as a Mod.

I have all permissions open, use NO human verification that is native, allow links in first posts, no accounts are moderated... No spam.

On my main site we have had spammers join the site and make 10 decent posts just to be able to get permissions to post a link. I'm not sure if these would be concidered spam but my definition is if someone joins a site just to promote something without permission that is spam. The only way to get rid of this type is spam is to wait for it to happen and delete it.

That's a function of the "gotcha" type nature of the post count requirement for posting links. Of course we have all seen this before as well.