Blocking Spam?

[Maksi]

Hello All,

Could anyone tell me the best way to block spam? What do you use to block spam from your forum? I was going to install Spam-O-Matic, but I just wanted to see what everyone else does to block spam. Is Spam-O-Matic the best mod to block spam?

Your help is greatly appreciated.:up:

[Maksi]

On my last forum I had to disable the registration and requested via a post within the forum to have people email me to activate their membership manually, for each member, I had zero members email me and over 1k spam bot members register. I just setup a new forum last night and I don't want to deal with spam and bots and would like to have a normal registration process.
Any suggestions?

[ForceHSS]

Install spam o matic it will help but also install
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294633

And this if you want but not needed
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294164

[New Joe]

vB org need to learn how to block spam, so much of it nowadays, with links too.
You'd have thought this place would have at least used a few Spam link mods..lol..

[rhody401]

We use these, to prevent them from creating accounts in the first place:

• A series of 6 random Q&A Human Verification Options (industry related to forum purpose)
• VB Bad Behavior (checks for mischievous scripts)
• Spambot Stopper (if a bot fills it out too fast, it will reject)
• Glowhost Spam-O-Matic (Checks email and IP against known spammer blacklists. Make sure you DONT have the username checking enabled)
• Mandatory custom fields (industry related, for verification)
• Once email verified, they're moved to a temporary group. Then the mods manually move them to their final security group, and send them a personal welcome email. (based on membership status to our trade org)

The above tools stop 99.9% of them.

[Maksi]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Install spam o matic it will help but also install
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294633

And this if you want but not needed
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294164

Thank you for your suggestions, much appreciated. I will use the mods you recommended. Thank you:up:

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Originally Posted by rhody401

We use these, to prevent them from creating accounts in the first place:

• A series of 6 random Q&A Human Verification Options (industry related to forum purpose)
• VB Bad Behavior (checks for mischievous scripts)
• Spambot Stopper (if a bot fills it out too fast, it will reject)
• Glowhost Spam-O-Matic (Checks email and IP against known spammer blacklists. Make sure you DONT have the username checking enabled)
• Mandatory custom fields (industry related, for verification)
• Once email verified, they're moved to a temporary group. Then the mods manually move them to their final security group, and send them a personal welcome email. (based on membership status to our trade org)

The above tools stop 99.9% of them.

Wow you gave me lots of great tips and help, greatly appreciated:up: I will try out your suggestions:up: Thank you:up: