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Problem with spammers
I have a problem. People from this site are going to my forums and spamming them. Is there any way I can prevent this, or do I just have to watch and wait for the spammers to appear to ban them?
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aside from getting a list of proxy servers and adding to your ban list, you'll basicily just have to wait till they show up and deal with them as they spam..
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OK I can watch for them. die limit die
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I suppose you could allways go to the support forum at their home site and ask their advice, but other than that it is exactly what Steve has said. You will have to add them to the ban list and basically just deal with it yourself. Because people here do not have access to your boards admin CP, it really isn't their business...y'know.
Sorry about it anyways ^ ^;; |
Just don't react or make big announcements about them. If you ignore them, they'll proably lose interest... You could also just try to get some decent staff...
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Do you have email verification on? *hasn't used ProBoards in years*
Also, what if you put the moderate new members feature, that way it is more easy to detect those obvious spammers.... Or your last resort could be to moderate all posts, though I am not sure if all if any of these options are included in the ProBoards software. |
IIRC, Proboards uses a modified version of YaBB Gold, so all these features *should* be available. The best thing to do is to either require email activation of new accounts (as most forums do) or manually approve new accounts as forums like WtW do, although this may or may not be a viable option depending on the activity level of your forum.
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Something I figured out to deter SPAM was to censor the words that the spammers commonly used. They would use the words "queer" and "fag" because I banned these words. I censored both of the to say "I suck balls" so now their posts will advertise their gayness. Is this bad or should this work?
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Except that "queer" can also mean "odd", and you may censor some legitimate posts.
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