They make 2-3 porn spam post per-day on my forum, I have ban their email, their IP and their username, but they keep coming back. What should I do. They have been doing this for the last 3 months. Registration Service Provided By: KLIK MEDIA GMBH Contact: +49.3094413291 Domain Name: ASSANDANAL.NET Registrant: REKLAMZ Evgenii () Pushkina 4 Moscow null,23237 RU Tel. +495.67876876 Creation Date: 01-Nov-2006 Expiration Date: 01-Nov-2007 Domain servers in listed order: ns1.korinna.net ns2.korinna.net ns3.klikdomains.com ns4.klikdomains.com Administrative Contact: REKLAMZ Evgenii () Pushkina 4 Moscow null,23237 RU Tel. +495.67876876 Technical Contact: REKLAMZ Evgenii () Pushkina 4 Moscow null,23237 RU Tel. +495.67876876
Not much other than making it more difficult to sign up. I have the same problem, so I simply delete all that stuff every day. Some wise up and go elsewhere, while others are persistent. One of the hassles of being a forum administrator, right?
Add a order allow,deny to .htaccess file order allow,deny deny from 123.123.123.123 deny from 456.456.456.* deny from 789.789.*.* allow from all Change bold to match their IP or IP block
If you answered my question I might be able to help you. Even a "I can't give it to you" would be ok. Oh well, maybe you don't need the help of a programmer.
It happens to the best of forums. Make sure you're using a decent forum package that allows the community to report posts and follow up on them promptly.
If he spams the same domain(s) all the time just write a reg-exp that checks each post upon submit and bans the user if matched.
Does your registration process require email validation? If not, perhaps it should. This eliminated my problem with automated spam bots. As for the manual lackies... You need to just keep on top of them by bringing on board some moderators. With an email validation system it gets to be too much work for them after a week or so. They'll need to be constantly creating new email addresses, which is not hard, but can become tiresome if they realize you are deleting the posts right away anyway. And that is the key.... Build tools to find and monitor new posts so you can whipe them within minutes. If they see their spam sticks for a day or two, that is good enough return on their investment to keep coming back. If it disappears within 30 minutes each time. They may give up easier. Hope this helps! Ps - the trick comes when you get a spammer that is not posting porn but real content. Those are the hard ones to catch. I usually let them post for a day or so and learn their habits. Then update my monitoring program to include their "signature". But all the programs in the world will never beat a good team of moderators... So make that your first priority. Good luck!
if you are willing you could always set it so the admin has to approve accounts. that would be very handy if they are the clever type of spammer who hides under names like "pornspam", " pornspammer", "llama on midget action", etc
Well assuming it's the same domains being posted do a mod rewrite for any return of the domain(s) to a friendly page/site (an advocate against porn (or whatever)... It doesn't stop the poster but since he promoting someone else - he will give up.
Plain and simple, you have two viable options: #1 Reduce spam by CAPTCHA(make them enter a distorted word), but this won't elminate spam. #2 Make the registration page verify their referring URL. If they aren't accessing the registration page from your domain, give them the boot.
well, more than likely if they are spamming the same site, they're an affiliate of that site. Try contacting the owners of the site and informing them of the spam, and include the URL thats being spammed, because it probably includes an affiliate ID... And demand they take action to stop this from happening. If the link is just a straight domain.com direct and you think its the actual website owners who are spamming, then write to their host (korinna.net) and report the abuse.
You know what would be nice in a situation like this is to fix your forum so that all new users make invisible posts and a moderator has to approve their account so that their posts are visible. As soon as they make their first post the mods and admin get an email and judge the post to see if its spam, if its not they upgrade the new user to visible posts.
I dont know if this is possible, but something like that but more automated. Since porn and things are not allowed on your forum have some system that checks the post for keywords like 'porn' or 's3x' and the like. If it says it, it automaticly bans them. I guess it would be kinda like a bot that checks if a users post==0 then go to then when the users if users post=1 it looks at that users posts and does a ctrl-f kinda thing for those keywords. If it finds them, it bans them.