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Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
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Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
Welcome to the community! a) Vanilla does this by default b) Recaptcha is an evolving piece of software, so it gets better as time goes on c) This is also a default setting in Vanilla d) As far as I know, the only Rank plugin available on the OS version is Yaga. Yaga is in beta and requires the 2.1 beta to run, so I can't… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
A * custom+reCAPTCHA / closed membership / paid membership only * custom I think the problem is the sporadic support of solution, and solution that don't really understand the maths and capability of spammers. reCAPTCHA is not useless. Implementations may be. Any regularly updated solution, which has the maths in its… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
I have 6 installations , I use confirm email on 4, botstop with a hard question , recaptcha . I changed to invitation on two to see what would happen. I think the one that gets the most spam is the applicant , when in that mode of approval. I only got superspammed before using BotStop with massive applicant bots and got… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
Nice to meet you all, my first time commenting. I'm in category B - my Vanilla forum (free, not the paid service) has been overrun with spam the last couple of months. This means daily about 5 different spam posts with about an additional 15 different signups that include spam links in their member information. I'm using… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
well hello; Reading all of you story and let me say i feel you; I have your problem in addition to this: I use cloudflare for my dns resolver and I think this is part of my problem. the part that I can't do anything about with my current situation. As I write; it is about 5 hours that I got vanilla from here and installed… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
I want to add my experiences with spam handling here. My website indianfootballnetwork.com used to get 15-20 spammers daily until I installed StopForumSpam and activated email validation(I removed ReCaptcha as I felt it was useless like someone above mentioned). This was effective only to some extent as StopForumSpam can…
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