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doddy
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« on: May 05, 2007, 05:04:16 AM »
The last month has seen a massive surge in the amount of spammers I get at my phpbb based forums.  Usually I go in to mysql and hack them out but this is time consuming and to be honest I am not sure whether I am damaging the database or forum in any way by doing this.  Are there easier and more practical methods to tackle phpbb spamming?
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2007, 12:45:18 PM »
sounds a bit obvious, but have you set your posting to registered users only?
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2007, 02:59:27 PM »
Yes, I have it set to registered users only.  I get between 10 and 20 auto registrations per day, and they frequently leave spam comments soon after registering.

I found this mod that but am a little reluctant to add it until I get a chance to test it.  Has anyone else used it and what were the results?
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2007, 05:57:31 PM »
Hi doddy,

Which mod did you think about using?  Didn't see a link in your post.
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2007, 12:28:11 AM »
Yes I'd be interested to find out what mod that is too.

I'm going to make a post to find out which mods are most popular/successful with phpbb2 in the phpbb forum - if you have any others installed perhaps you could let me know as I'm trying to decide which ones might be useful for our forum.

Thanks.
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2007, 07:46:53 AM »
One way in which I have tackled phpBB forum spam in the past is to add a required custom field to the sign up process.  The reason this often cuts out spam is because the signup/spam bots usually (though not always) work on the basis of a default installation and therefore do not know how to tackle to new field. Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2007, 09:41:13 AM »
Sorry about that guys.  Here is the link

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=435702

I have used it on a test installation of phpbb and it works well.  My live copies have various other mods installed so I wanted to test whether this mod works well with them.

Has anyone used this mod?
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« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2007, 03:46:34 PM »
I found a mod that disallows users from posting links until after they post a certain number of posts. The number of posts is customizable in the admin panel. This eliminated spammers almost completely.
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2007, 09:38:59 AM »
That sounds like another good approach, coolguy85.  Do you have a link to the mod you use?
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2007, 09:20:31 PM »
Quote from: coolguy85 on June 17, 2007, 03:46:34 PM
I found a mod that disallows users from posting links until after they post a certain number of posts. The number of posts is customizable in the admin panel. This eliminated spammers almost completely.

Where did you get that? I need it! lol
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