Hello, I have a forum on which i regularly get spam for all kinds of crap. How can i avoid users registering only to place spam ? They probably use a bot to do this i think...
I ban certain domain names when they register, and this has stopped alot of the spam. Good moderation is important, along with accepting their membership before they can post, and stopping them entering URL into profile until you have accepted them. This is all within VB - with phpBB is not very good for this type of problem.
IMO, when a spammer wants to spam, he'll spam. Nothing could stop a spammer or avoid spamming for a matter of fact. The most you can do is get loyal moderators that are upto deleting and acting against spam. You could code something that would probably work on regex arrays to cut off some of the spamming, but avoiding it is hardly possible.
I wish there were a sure fire quick solution, but as DarrenC said, trying to stop them at the gates, or having good mods is the only way to go. Nothing will stop them 100%.
you have to manually moderate forum's . because spam bot may spam some good users and may let your forum used by spammers . Top forum's on internet are moderated by human beings and no technology can change it
I dont think banning there ip address will help stop them. Since they can use proxies to hide there ip and register again to spam again. But they should be a way to stop spammers.
Argh, I cannot remember now but there's some sort of add-ons that you can use for forums (even free such as phpBB) that can help with this issue. Try googling for 'forum modifications' or 'forum spam blockers'.
I have created me own script that put a 100% end to all spam. I was going to release it to the public soon but I keep getting backtracked. I realized that all spammers (real people or bots) have something in common so I managed to prevent them completely. My forum doesn't even need moderation anymore because of it.