XF 1.2 Too many spams making my life hell

abdfahim

abdfahim

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Dear Experts here,

I am facing lots of problems with spammers. In my forum, I have lots of spams posted each day despite my earnest efforts to prevent them. So, I am just curious whether I have a loophole in my protection, or it is normal in forums (where mods have to delete the spams on regular basis). As I have just started my community with no real number of members, I don't have any person to help me moderating, so all I have to do by myself.

The measures I have taken:
1) Mandatory user email confirmation during registration
2) Set my registration timer to 25 sec
3) Using Q/A captcha with multiple question
4) Changing captcha Q bi-weekly (Q are like what is the 5th character of ...., or some simple math ... are they too simple?)

Thanks,
 
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I'm not knocking add ons but you can take care of the spam with the built in tools.
I use the default Keycaptcha from Google. I found questions and answers are to easy to break. (Some may disagree) I also set my user criteria to 0. I dont have a spam problem but very rarely. The built in tools will do the job if you use them correctly.

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Sorry guys, I was out on emergency call immediate after posting the question, so couldn't reply on time. Thanks for all the useful suggestions, will try to apply one by one.

dawg said:
Can you tell us what you have your spam cleaner user criteria set to?

options - spam management.
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they all are zero, and honestly I never tried to do anything there coz I wasn't sure what are the uses unless recently. However, ain't they for cure, not prevention, if I am right?
 
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