prevent spam users from posting in activity
tayholliday
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Hi, I'm fairly new to using vanilla (and running a forum in general). I'm wondering how I can prevent the following spam in the activity:
Spam users are registering accounts and then posting in their profile. I'd be fine with disabling profiles all together, since they're not necessary on my forum.
thanks!
- Taylor
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Here are some other sites which exhibit the same sort of spam:
http://forum.audiob.us/activity
http://createdigitalnoise.com/activity
if you go into roles an permissions edit the roles like Member. look for the profile row, and the view column, you can uncheck this.
grep is your friend.
@x00, If I do that, can they still change their picture? I'd still like to have profile pictures.
Go to /applications/dashboard/views/activity/helper_functions
Then replace
by
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@aery, will that replace all the posts with "Sorry, you cannot post links here."? Or will it stop them whilst trying to post?
That will replace links with text.
To stop tem, use stop spam or akismet plugin
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This need not be complex or require a monthly fee (akismet). How about just not showing the text field where they can enter the spam in the first place?
@tayholliday
How are they joining?
Wouldn't it be more effective to stop them joining?
BotStop (http://vanillaforums.org/addon/botstop-plugin) is a very good plugin for stopping bot signups.
@whu606, I'm using "Basic" registration, so I presume they get past the CAPTCHA somehow.
I'll give the BotStop a try, thanks!
@tayholliday
There's a thread on that plugin which shows a mod to make the plugin work with Registration approval.
Since I activated BotStop I haven't had any bots get through.
Yup!
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/167592/#Comment_167592
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Shouldn't Captcha stop bot registrations, i.e. if I have Captcha enabled and I'm still getting some "spam" postings on my Activities page, then they must be posting that activity manually, ya?
botstop with approval is better for stopping bot registrations, and no "then they must be posting that activity manually" not true.
9 out of 10 forum administrators say so.
I may not provide the completed solution you might desire, but I do try to provide honest suggestions to help you solve your issue.
Vanilla forums for experience is the only one that I never get spam, MYBB Had spam always after 1 night I have over 5 thousand posts. Valina I use Botstop, captcha and that means no spam!
For both MyBB and Vanilla, I found that adding questions to the registration process helped a lot in reducing the number of bots joining.
Add Pages to Vanilla with the Basic Pages app
Yea and to further your filtration, you can ask a question like :
Who Cut Down The Cherry Tree?
answers:
Washington
George Washington
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Keeping my fingers crossed with this plugin. I guess my forum is going well now that I am being slammed by spam
Yea it works ,now I miss not having any applicants lol
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