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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.
I noticed something else very odd recently. Spammers are putting links and comments (like 'see my blog') several times on their member user entries (not on the forum) even though they have NOT confirmed their email address. I can't see how this is possible (that function is turned on) unless they are interacting with the… -
Re: Poll - Which Registration Method and plugins do you use to deter spammers and their efficacy.
thx for answering poll. edited: jeongwee, you were probably laughing about my joke to block forum members from china. :) if you use approval registration and registration restrict plugin - you might keep the automated spammers from registering. as far as spam in discussions - I think the other plugins mentioned might deal… -
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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