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idea to fight spammers

Post by rallysam »

Have you noticed that most of the spam posts go under "stuff you need to know"?

I wonder if that's just because it's the first forum on the list. So, if Dave created a new forum above that called "Stuff you DON'T need to know" or something like that, then maybe all the spam posts would go in there and none of us would waste time looking. 8)
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Post by Legacy777 »

Yeah....we've been mulling over how to deal with the spammers.

That would work, but then you'd have a forum that is for nothing, and would add clutter....

Just my thoughts...
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Post by rallysam »

True. No biggy either way, just thought I'd throw it out there cause it's a funny way to beat them :D
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Post by thefultonhow »

vBulletin has a feature called SpamBuster that quarantines suspected spam.
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Post by Manarius »

Image verification I think is the best solution. Even iB has that.
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Post by thefultonhow »

Image verification does not stop spam at all. We have image verification on the site I'm a mod on and still get plenty of spam -- but about 75-90% of it is caught by SpamBuster so it's not a huge issue to the end user.

The only bad thing about SpamBuster is it does flag a number of legitimate messages, which then have to be approved by a mod before they are visible to the forum. Small price to pay for no spam though, and it's not like the mods aren't notified about every post SpamBuster flags, so they can approve false positives easily.

The only two anti-spam features I've seen consistently work are IP blocks and SpamBuster.
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Post by DLC »

One way to stop it would be for us to approve each new member, which is not really as time consuming as it would be at, say, NASIOC, but it's still a pain.
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Post by Legacy777 »

Yeah.....there's not really too good a solution for this version of phpBB.

Hopefully the new version will have much better features.
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