can you suggest a way to stop spam posts in the forum,banning is not working.i have banned ips and usernames but the spammer is changing his/her ip and posting constantly in my forum.any suggestions ?
The only way to get rid of spam is let them spam and do better against there spam try word censorship limit signature and allow to put after a reasonable post count no more then 25 at least 7 days old member can have signature appeal members to report post in your sticky thread do not forgot to add reputation to member who reports a spam post also add to reputations to members post helpful replies if you mind if you ban if you give many infractions and on small mistakes then you can not get rid of the spam
It really depends on the forum software that you're using. Some have a variety of tools for assisting with this. So, I'd maybe post on your forum software forums to see what you can do from within the forum control panel.
hopefully sooner tertatasi the problem, try using capcha as suggested above seems a great idea as we have seen that used by most applications the forums