How do you keep spammers out of RT Forums?
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- Mike VanKirk
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My question really is "are there spammers posting here?" I never see any 'buy a phone from me' or 'look here for hot girls'.
...but on a site about Joomla! that I help moderate, there are about 10 spam/ad posts a day. I ban usernames, but that's easy to work around for repeat offenders. What else can I do? This has to be the most annoying thing ever.
Cheers,
Mike
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- urj2ic8
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Mike VanKirk wrote:
My question really is "are there spammers posting here?" I never see any 'buy a phone from me' or 'look here for hot girls'.
...but on a site about Joomla! that I help moderate, there are about 10 spam/ad posts a day. I ban usernames, but that's easy to work around for repeat offenders. What else can I do? This has to be the most annoying thing ever.
Cheers,
Mike
because you have to pay to get access i guess.
and you can't post anonymously - Billy Zoellers
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- Joe Halleck
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Best to have them validate their account.
If they don't get the e-mail they can't validate. - Magento - phpBB3 - Kunena - RokBridge Specialist
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- Bob Ateah
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Yup, mandatory email verification for registration combined with
captcha
- visual and sometimes audio confirmation combination of letters/ numbers generated randomly - will bring to a halt spammers... or at least greatly reduce the tide.
I have a problem with spammers spamming Easy Book (Joomla guestbook) and although it has an admin option to enable captcha, for the life of me I cannot get it to work. But I digress.
Cheers and a pox on spammers. - The member formerly known as Roland Deschain
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- James Spencer
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Roland Deschain wrote:
Yup, mandatory email verification for registration combined with captcha - visual and sometimes audio confirmation combination of letters/ numbers generated randomly - will bring to a halt spammers... or at least greatly reduce the tide.
I have a problem with spammers spamming Easy Book (Joomla guestbook) and although it has an admin option to enable captcha, for the life of me I cannot get it to work. But I digress.
Cheers and a pox on spammers.
I would say captcha is the best option - only if it works >
- James Spencer / Developer & Support / Hull, UK
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- Mike VanKirk
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Good ideas. I will pass them along. Thanks
Cheers,
Mike
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