Digital Doctor
Well-known member
While various spam prevention methods tend to work on bots there's an increasingly number of "human" spammers, mainly from the third world and those people stupid enough to believe they are going to get paid $1,000s per week to act like pork chops on online communities. We had an ongoing battle to get rid of the pricks, excuse languages, and finally discovered the full proof method. Turn off signatures and PMs for new members We're still getting a huge sign up at one movie site but once they discover they can't use a sig they don't post and move onto the next target. Simple solution folks, and you get a membership number clicking over satisfactory. Make the spammers work for you!
Spam Tip: Turn off signatures and PMs for new members
Great Tip.
There should be a TIPS entry on Spammers
If Xenforo.com had a wiki i'd enter it myself.