Guest Posts Porn!

I was wondering if anybody knows anything about administering on the phpBB forums.

I recently launched my own free to post ads forum (Which is going quite well) but I keep getting a few guests posting.

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against guests apart from the fact that one or two of them tend to submit porn to the forum. Fortunately I have managed to delete these entries fairly quickly, but was wondering if anyone was familiar with the administration settings and knew of a way I could stop guests posting and only have signed up members.

Kind Regards

Clive Anderson

 

Haven't used phpBB for about 2 years, so can't tell you exactly where to look.
But it's definatly possible (and recommend) to disable guest posting.
In the board permissions set the post/reply permissions to reg

 

I'm betting it's possible to add a mod to your forum that blocks active urls from new users. Digitalpoint does it.

 

Log on to the admin section and change permissions for each forum not to allow guests to post.

 

just add two mods captcha and are you human(or something like that)

 

hmm...I have a bitter experience. I was getting simillar kind of spamming. When I tried to ban the IP address, the forum got hacked....too bad. My few months works just disappeared in few seconds.....

 

yea i had the same problem lol, but i disallowed guests to post so they just registered and posted anyway, i deleted and banned 'em, waste of time, i didnt even know there was a mod like the one this forum uses lol, its cool, is there one for smf?

 

I'm having the same problem on my forum. I'm getting over 500 new posts a day just SPAM. about 10 accounts. I wish there was a solution to this.

 

Add a mod that deactivates links from users with low post counts. I'm sure you can find someone to write a mod like that.

 

right, but you're still getting 500 spam posts to delete one by one. Doesn't solve the problem hardly.

 

You can try changing your registration method if it's such a big problem. Be a little innovative.

 

block guest posts

 

You can make phpBB prevent users from including URLs in their posts until they have made a certain minimum number of posts. Add the following to the functions_post.php file at about line 170 -- after the "Check Message" block and before the "Handle Poll Stuff" block:

Back up the file before making the change and test it by quickly creating a new user and trying to post a URL in a message.

if($userdata['user_posts']<10)
        {
        if(strpos($message, "[url")!==false
            || strpos($message, "http://")!==false
                || strpos($message, "www")!==false
                     || strpos($message, ".info")!==false) {
        $error_msg .= (!empty($error_msg)) ? '<br />' : "";
        $error_msg .= 'Error in posting: You are not allowed
                        to post any websites here at the moment.';
                }

PHP:

You could defeat people who try to post a bunch of messages at a time by also including a time element, such as a minimum of 10 posta and a minimum of 5 days membership in the forum:

if($userdata['user_posts']<10
      || (time() - $userdata['user_regdate']) < 5*60*60*24)

PHP:

 

nice job clancey i wish i was usind phpBB

 

not bad clancy,
also, try banning their domain of their email, if applicable

 

I faced same problems. I installed some antispam mods with turing numbers and disabled guests posting and still no effect.
So I delete the posts manually from time to time.

Just wondering if I miss something.....

 

You can also try blocking by IP address.

 

WOW!

I never knew so many people would be interested. I'm really enjoying reading all the responses. It just goes to show that I am not alone in my problem with the Porn Posters.

For me though I think Diether came up with the solution. Or at least I've implemented it and I've had no guests since, or porn posting.

Thank you again for all the input and support you have shown.

I hope you are able to help the others who are appear to be suffering with similar problems.

Kind Regards

Clive Anderson

 

You're welcome