billybatz9
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I am getting slammed with spam. Does anyone have any advice to stop it? At least 10 new registrations a day. I have Q&A captcha right now.
Spam! Lots of it
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Martok
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It'd be helpful if you gave more details about your spam problem - are they just registrations in the moderate registrations queue or are they getting through and posting spam?
A screenshot of your spam settings would also be helpful.
Also what settings you have for "Minimum Time Between Messages (seconds)" in ACP > Options > Performance and whether you have allowed the bypass flood check permission for any user groups (hopefully you haven't).
Initial suggestions would be:
A screenshot of your spam settings would also be helpful.
Also what settings you have for "Minimum Time Between Messages (seconds)" in ACP > Options > Performance and whether you have allowed the bypass flood check permission for any user groups (hopefully you haven't).
Initial suggestions would be:
- Change your Q&A question. Don't make it something that is easy for everyone to answer, try and make it something that is relevant to your forum. Change it on a regular basis if you continue to have problems with spam registrations.
- Get a Project Honeypot and Akismet keys and add them to your spam settings (details of these are on the spam settings page in the ACP)
I have a similar problem.
Brand new forum, tons of users are registering, most of them with gmail addresses (so can't ban the domain), IP addresses belonging to networks in Pakistan, Poland, Russia, etc.
They haven't posted yet, but obviously it's a ticking timebomb.
I have CAPTCHA enabled, and also have Project Honeypot integrated.
Only other options I have are Q&A (but that means I have to disable CAPTCHA), or enable CloudFlare, which can be a pain as well.
Brand new forum, tons of users are registering, most of them with gmail addresses (so can't ban the domain), IP addresses belonging to networks in Pakistan, Poland, Russia, etc.
They haven't posted yet, but obviously it's a ticking timebomb.
I have CAPTCHA enabled, and also have Project Honeypot integrated.
Only other options I have are Q&A (but that means I have to disable CAPTCHA), or enable CloudFlare, which can be a pain as well.
m1ne
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AlexanderBezborodov
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billybatz9
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Used this method above and still have a lot of spam. At least 3 new messages a day! If I don't go on my forum daily, it will be covered in spam. Any way around this? I even have it set up using the method above, not allowing links before 3 posts are made, and bots still find a way to post a link without getting banned.
Nebulous
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I have these at my forum, they seem to be helping:
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/tpu-detect-and-block-spam-registrations.2973/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/slider-captcha.3756/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/tpu-detect-and-block-spam-registrations.2973/
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/slider-captcha.3756/
billybatz9
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I did. it seems to help, but its the links that keep getting through, although i put.
Any suggestions to stop links from getting submitted?
m1ne
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billybatz9
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Solidus, you have a ridiculous amount of posts on WWE Forums (Congraaats!) Are those all real? Or did you help build them? I am starting a new forum and would like to increase post count without manually inputting thousands of posts. Any help would be greatly appreciated
m1ne
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Thanks! They are all real, I contributed around 8,000 of them.
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