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How to stop forum spam?
Hello, My Vanilla forum is being spammed at the moment. I have 1 new fake member every 5 minutes, each posting a lot of spams messages. I have "stop forum spam" plugin since the launch, and "akismet antispam". I can't delete all the members : they make fake accounts faster. How can I solve the problem? My forum :… -
Re: How to stop forum spam?
So I just remove the spammers one by one and I set to manually confirm the new ones... it seems to work, but it's not very convenient for the new real members... (I have also google recaptcha v2, so I really don't understand how I have so many spams since yesterday). (my version is the last one, 3.2). -
Re: How to stop forum spam?
@xatanael I've been inundated for the last 40 hours or so too. New accounts every 3 to 7 minutes, woke up to an entire front page of spam threads this morning. I thought maybe updating Vanilla might help (I'm on 2.6), but you're on Vanilla 3? Combatting it so far: I've added ban rules for a ton of very dubious looking…
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