Spam-filter effectiveness

[Ati]

Hi,

i haven't seen any robot-posted spam on this forum yet.

Is that because the built-in spam prevention is so good, or are the moderators so quick?

 

[Paul B]

Human spammers post occasionally, but they're swiftly dealt with

 

[Ati]

Human spammers post occasionally, but they're swiftly dealt with

Thanks Brogan!

 

[Floris]

I recently posted about this on my site, that I didn't even use email verification, no captcha and other anti spam tools until we got our first spam post and more than a handful of members. I only require email verification at this point and we review posts as they come in. If it increases we will obviously increase the tools as well. But I want it to be as end-user friendly as possible.

 

[Ati]

But I want it to be as end-user friendly as possible.

That's my concern exactly. I'm trying to figure out what preventions to use.

 

[Floris]

Use it when you need it, I guess is what I am saying
Spam sucks, and will always happen.

 

[Andy.N]

I have installed Xenutilities addon and have API for all 3 anti-spam services. Since we installed couple days ago, it prevents about a dozen known spammer accounts. We only had 1 who got through and spam profile pages which we have to use the spam removal tool to get rid of.

 

[dieketzer]

i think xf is still flying under the radar. i dont believe the automated bots are programmed to target it yet.
the real test will come once xf picks up in popularity and catches the eye of the spammers.