Improved forum defense against spammers

[Little John]

I understand the amount isn't too much to deal with it manually, it's the annoyance it causes...

Exactly!

[blueznl]

I find the amount of spam increasing, and extremely annoying. Is there no easy fix?

[Rings]

I find the amount of spam increasing, and extremely annoying. Is there no easy fix?

whats wrong with my finger crosses ?

[rsts]

I find the amount of spam increasing, and extremely annoying. Is there no easy fix?

Relaxation? deep breathing? exercise?

Ignore it?

cheers

[Marlin]

From my point of view spam is taken care about enough.

I never had any real problem with spam here.

[blueznl]

I admit I'm addicted to this forum, so whenever I hope to see some messages, and then get bombarded with yet another 'great offer' it's, well, bad for my health.

Perhaps I should consider gerbils as a hobby... Hmmm. Perhaps fangles has some tips for me...

[C64]

I think the ! Flag is good enough

It's only good if mods act on the flag. I reported some spam yesterday using it, and now I'm here again the next day and same spam posts are still there. When I click "!" on them again, I simply get met with this:

This post has already been reported.

[IdeasVacuum]

IdeasVacuum also wrote:

Perhaps more of the regular forum visitors could be given the right to delete spam, so that it can be taken out more quickly.

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

The stop forum spam API would help. but its been suggested before and there are modules available for phpbb...

The main cause of the influx of spammers lately is that ReCAPTCHA Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack & google-recaptcha cracked. And it will just get worse and worse.

Adding some hidden question and answer stuff in the CSS would help weed out the bots from the humans too. As the bots would try to answer ALL questions pretty much. So if any of those hidden fields get answers, you know it ain't human. you will always get a clever spammer who will humanly interact if the bot fails to signup, but the odd one or two you don't mind manually dealing with.

[Kiffi]

just take a look at the current memberlist. Horrible!

Greetings ... Kiffi

[Lost]

I had the same issue on my forum, where the last few months many spam bots registered each day. The forum software I use allows the admin to set a question that needs to be answered during registration of an account. Since I set a few of those questions a few weeks ago, I've had no more spam bot registrations.

Just a simple question like this seems to work great:
Fill in the missing characters: PureBasic is a fantastic prog***ming language.

Maybe this could be used on this forum as well?

[IdeasVacuum]

set a question that needs to be answered during registration of an account

That is an excellent idea. May be it would be good to have a similar thing for Users to log in as well.

[skywalk]

Just a simple question like this seems to work great:
Fill in the missing characters: PureBasic is a fantastic prog***ming language.

Or better yet...fill in the blanks '_' ...
"Where does PureBasic store all their #C_nsta_ts?"
The forum login was stuck up like a constipated gerbil after a session with the dear departed S_od.


-Rant Off

[Little John]

It seems that ignoring the spam problem didn't solve it.

[dobro]

solve the problems of spam is easy
must validate the new members by hand!
I do this on my forum, and no problems!

New members must write me before the validation
more
my forum is invisible to the no-members


ps : Fred could provide validation based on the licenses

disappeared hackers of Purebasic on the forum