I have installed phpbb - for my site www.ebigoe.com - travellers to and living in the uk site, I haven't announced it to my subscribers yet. My problem is that lollies subscribe to and make posts that are usually to do with sex, they are not related to UK travel. I have made it so that I am notified of new signups, have added disallowed names. But basically it costs me time to delete these users and posts - but most of all it p*sses me off - seriously if I ever met a spammer face to face - i would not hesitate to *@!/ him up good. Yes I have included text in topic lines that forum relates to overseas travel only. Anyway, I used phpbb because it seemed like a good tool (i would like to use boonex dolphin - but i don't have php skills and at this stage want to stick to shared hosting, as I had considered dolphin for the sister site www.bigoemates.com which would then mean the forum at bigoe.com would not be necessary). If some one could advise a better, less time consuming way of getting rid of /avoiding spammers (in general would be nice) to my forum OR a better way to deal with it (yes vehicular manslaughter jumps to mind) this would be appreciated. Maybe suggestions of a different (free/OS) board tool to use - one that is not to complicated and can run on shared hosting. And if no one answers, at least i got to rant and send a clear warning out to time wasters not to stand in front of my car. I'll leave to your imagination what I did when I met in person a fellow gamer who was a camper/spammer. Thanks Rachel http://www.ebigoe.com http://www.ebigoe.com/online-community/ <--forum fyi: Big OE is a New Zealand & Aussie phrase meaning 'Big Overseas experience' - typically to the UK.
Anyway, I used phpbb because it seemed like a good tool (i would like to use boonex dolphin - but i don't have php skills and at this stage want to stick to shared hosting, as I had considered dolphin for the sister site www.bigoemates.com which would then mean the forum at ebigoe.com would not be necessary). ebigoe.com not bigoe
Hi Rachel, Try installing SMF instead of phpBB (no PHP skills required), then read this thread on SitePoint about how to deal with forum spam: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=427488