New User "Check out my web page" spam

KennyKane

Sorry if this has been discussed. Has anyone seen this? Any add-ons or fixes?

Thanks!

Adrian

@kennykane Have you looked at stopforumspam.com, it may be reported there? Consider these three plugins to use if you are not yet using them:

akismet: great for stopping spammers

stopforumspam: review settings to tighten it up. This blog post cover that.

report spam: report spam to stop forum spam. The more people who use it the more we protect one another.

KennyKane

Hey @Adrian‌

Thanks for the links. I actually have all of those things. The interesting thing about this particular spam is they're not outwardly posting, just giving themselves a status. Is there to disable them from posting on their profile until they get 5 posts under their belt or something?

Adrian

@kennykane, you mean on the activity form on the profile page? It's not something possible out of the box.

Here are some ideas:

• You can try @peregrine‌ solution: http://vanillaforums.org/addon/preventweblinks-plugin

• I don't think it is in Yaga, but maybe you can sponsor @hgtonight to look at profile/link posting as a feature in Ranks (for open source).

• Normally when I tighten up stop forum spam I killed these off. If it's just one off spam, maybe consider a challenge question like (once again from @peregrine‌ ) http://vanillaforums.org/addon/addregistrationquestion-plugin

hgtonight

You could remove their ability to post activities via the ranks system in Yaga.

Just require 5 posts and give them the new role/permission.

Adrian

@hgtonight‌ my bad did not realize that Yaga had that

hgtonight

@Adrian said:
hgtonight‌ my bad did not realize that Yaga had that

nbd, I am finding new ways to use it all the time

KennyKane

Thanks for all the insight @Adrian‌ @hgtonight‌.

Going to give the prevent weblinks a shot.