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We require AVForums members to maintain a valid email address, but I’m reconsidering how we should handle members who report our emails as spam. Our email service suppresses delivery to those addresses after a spam complaint. Some affected accounts remain Valid in XenForo, so the members can...

Stops the classic overnight spammer: a fresh account posts a few harmless messages to pass XenForo's spam checks, then floods the forum with link spam. When a recently registered account posts a message with a link, the add-on sends it to an AI model for a spam verdict: Spam -> the message...

Forum Fortress: a fresh take on forum spam blocking Designed to be more than just another blocklist. Forum Fortress checks registration, posting and profile activity to let your genuine members sail through smoothly and stop the spambots and malicious humans. It's designed specifically for...

I've noticed over the past few months on two different forums that this company is definitely leveraged by spammers targeting forums. Quite a few IP ranges too because I actually block the entire CIDR for the IP each time and they still crop up under different IP ranges periodically. One of the...

Challenge suspicious bots before they scrape your forum XF Bot Guard protects public XenForo pages from abusive bots, scrapers, fake browsers, crawler abuse, and bot-driven server load. It is built for the traffic normal anti-spam tools often miss: bots that do not register, do not post...

AI-assisted rules moderation for XenForo AI Rules Moderation helps XenForo forums review eligible new and edited public text content against your own forum rules. When content clearly appears to breach those rules, it can be moved into XenForo's built-in approval queue with an AI-generated...

What are you all doing to control links these days? Basically, I want to know how I could make it so that new members need to post a few times before they can post a link. Is that possible? Whether it's a core feature or a plugin. I think that could help with a lot of spam.

I'm more interested that the AI Agents came from SpaceX IP addresses since Elon Musk has Grok 4 and a big player in AI.. Had three different agents register and used two different IP addresses that belong to SpaceX. Here was the reply they made to a post. What is the end game or motivation...

We used to be able to select all text in a post and hit the unlink button in editor toolbar. Now we need to find every link in a text, even if its just a linked point or space. Please bring this button back. It saves staff a lot of time.

Pixel Patrol – AI Moderation for XenForo Pixel Patrol is a powerful AI-driven moderation plugin designed to help XenForo communities stay safe, scalable, and stress-free. 🔎 Moderates Images & Text – Automatically review posts, threads, and uploads. 📝 English-Based Rules – Write simple rules...

Hello, several accounts are creating hundreds of threads on my forum. I have already disabled the ability to post new threads without approval, but now I have a new problem: I have thousands of spam messages pending approval, even though these users have been completely deleted. What should I...

Hi everyone, We're excited to share our first XenForo add-on with the community! What does it do? UserCheck blocks users from registering with disposable/temporary email addresses. It uses the UserCheck.com API to validate email addresses in real-time during registration, helping to reduce...

Hi, hope someone can help. I just deleted a spam message from a new member, now banned. His post is not showing anymore. Good. But I logout and check, and his message still shows both in the host thread and the Latest Posts list. ("Trusted cryptomachin," etc). Even when I login it's there. ▼...

I am having daily multiple registrations by spammers and their profile always looks about the same as this I am running the following Spam traps but nothing seems to stop these guys. Stop Forum Spam - All setup DNS Blacklist & Project Honey Pot - All setup Add-ons as follows So I am...

Overview Introducing Forum Copilot, an innovative XenForo add-on designed to automate community moderation using the advanced capabilities of OpenAI. This tool ensures your forum remains a safe and welcoming space for all users by leveraging AI to efficiently and effectively manage posts. Key...

Hello, After trying to fight this battle I am finally reaching out for help. My community has been spam free, and by that I mean ZERO since 2021 when it was started but for some reason on May 03 2024 it was like a lightswitch turned on and I had hundreds of accounts that seem as if they we're...

Hello everyone, I've noticed an increase in spam from old accounts over the past few days. These are accounts that haven't posted on the forum for many years. All the spam is advertising "Top-notch Casual Dating". After analyzing other forums, I've noticed the same thing happening there too...

Something I haven't seen until recently is new members signing up and after a few normal looking posts, start replying to discussions and adding link code in the quoted part of their responses. It's also setup so that it's not visible without viewing the code. So something to consider. Not sure...

Prevents users from overreacting to content by setting a wait time between reactions. The wait time only applies to new reactions (a user can remove or modify an existing reaction at any time). The wait time applies to all content types (e.g. posts, profile posts, profile post comments, and...

Trying to ban all members that signed up on a single IP. Sadly our spam prevention stopped working and over 1000 accounts signed up using a single IP over a few weeks and now spam the forum like crazy. Is there any way to mass ban based on IP? Any plugins? Thanks Jack