People just signing up on my forum to advertise Viagra Pills, porn site etc, how do I stop people from spamming?
Dont auto approve members. or Remove/rename forums named general, chat, ect that these software programs look for to post to. Theres 2 suggestions to get you started.
I suggest getting captcha installed in your forum, that really cuts down on spam. Some forum admins make it so users have to enter a code in every post, I think that's excessive, I think captcha should be at the very least, a requirement when signing up to a forum... and maybe at the first post with a little note that says "When you make XX posts, you will no longer have to enter this code" I wrote an entire blog post on it a while back: http://www.melbel.com/2007/12/importance-of-captcha-in-forum-sites.html Captcha
You can also install anti spam mods for eg vocabulary mods, capthcha mods etc as these are normally posted by bots. Once installed it will surely cut down the such spams. Also enable banning of such words so that even if the spammer manually sign up, they won't be able to do much harm.
Be an armed personnel and tell in the FAQ the rules that have to be followed strictly. If any thing goes out of hand, just warn in the first instance and should they repeat the mistake, then ban them. You also inform other members (by way of scrolling news or some thing like that) that x and y etc have been banned because of violating the rules. That would deter others to spam your forum. Hope this would be helpful.
Also you can hunt down this guy and tell him to stop. Most of the forum spam comes from his software.
the thing that up set me is that they posting these porn pictures...I dont give warning, you post anything about porn, pills or cansino I just banned you without warning. well, what I have done is to moderate all new user first post, because most of the spammer just sign up to spam.
I try to block emails they use. I usualy block all domain extension of that email. @spamer.com @spamer.net and so on
That depends on the size of the forum, if it is just a small forum, I doubt any members would be interested to moderate, the owner will need to do it himself.
Hay guys....I got something new that I can use to take care of the spamming hopefully....its a plugin from Vbulletin.org, anyone with less than 5 post that have a particular eyeword within the post will automatically sent to be moderated...I think this should help....I hope it work, already banned about 20 people today which first post is a porn picture. I should sleep good tonight and not worrying about my visitor getting thier computer cloged up with porn. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131568&highlight=advertising