Closing this forum to the public

[Roamer1610]

Yes, a good solution I think.

Have always been surprised that forum software does not have any anti-spam plugins! Blogging software (like Wordpress) has great anti-spam plugins like Askimet. This is linked to a central database to make identification of the spam comments easier. I would think that Askimet filters out probably 98% of all the spammers on my blogs.

Does VBulletin have the option of adding a capcha code at the time of sign-up? This at least stops automated spam-bots from joining and makes sure it is real people who are applying.

Prpbably a good policy though as at least it will cut down on the lurkers.

[jarda]

Originally Posted by Roamer1610

Yes, a good solution I think.

Have always been surprised that forum software does not have any anti-spam plugins! Blogging software (like Wordpress) has great anti-spam plugins like Askimet. This is linked to a central database to make identification of the spam comments easier. I would think that Askimet filters out probably 98% of all the spammers on my blogs.

Does VBulletin have the option of adding a capcha code at the time of sign-up? This at least stops automated spam-bots from joining and makes sure it is real people who are applying.

Prpbably a good policy though as at least it will cut down on the lurkers.

We have all of the above deployed.
We have a link to a spam database, and we also require image verification for registrations.
But it only stops about 80% of them.

There are actually people who register manually and once registered and passing the image verification, will post the spam.

They are playing the cat and mouse game with regards to creating messages that squeak past the robot spam checkers.

And hence, ultimately, a referral system is the best defense.
So far it has been working well...

Jarda

[Micke1]

I will definitly come here more often - because i dont want to get looked out of this forum. As a regular vistor to Prague (Escape, Temple, Drakes, Heaven, Termix, Valention and so on). I realy like to read about others experience. I have to contribute more myself do....

Thanks Jarda for keeping this site going......

/ Mikael Sweden