What to do about spammers?

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  • alienseeker
    New Member
    • Mar 2006
    • 29
    • 3.5.x

    What to do about spammers?

    Hi all,
    I have been hit with a very large number of spammers in the past couple weeks. They are posting mainly porn. There is so much of it that I cannot keep on top of it all. I end up shutting down the forums every evening. However, as soon as I open the forums again the next day the spammers start registering and posting spam once again.

    I think that a moderator I ended up banning may have submitted my site to a spammers list. Is there any way I can find out how my forum got on such a list for sure and who is responsible?

    Also how can I now stop these spammers? I don't have very much time to spend in the forums myself since I am kept busy with the main news site. The forums were setup to help to draw more traffic to the news site, but it has now reached a point of so many spammers that it is causing no one else to post any messages any longer and I may now have to shut the forums down all together unless there is something I can do.

    I would appreciate any help and/or advice anyone could offer.

    Best Regards,
    Don
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  • Steve Machol
    Former Customer Support Manager
    • Jul 2000
    • 154488

    #2
    See this: How to Reduce Spam and Registration Bots
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    • alienseeker
      New Member
      • Mar 2006
      • 29
      • 3.5.x

      #3
      Thanks Steve, I appreciate the help my friend.

      Best Regards,
      Don
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      • wda2015
        Senior Member
        • May 2001
        • 1135

        #4
        because most spammers like to post links to other sites i use this hack..

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