How to fight spam on vbulletin

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by I. Brian, Oct 3, 2006.

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    I wrote up an article on fighting forum spam earlier today:
    http://www.securitywatch.co.uk/forum-spam/how-fight-forum-spamming-222.html

    However, I figure there are other suggestions and recommendations I can incorporate into it - so if anyone else has anything useful to add please do feel free to post it here, and I'll keep the thread updated.

    Also, if you feel the article is useful, you're more than welcome to Shout or Digg it. :)
     
    I. Brian, Oct 3, 2006 IP
  2. disgust

    disgust Guest

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    you covered some stuff I wasn't really aware of (the homepage thing but never posting, for example), but you missed I think the most significant one, at least for every forum I've run:

    ditch captcha. go with a custom question validation instead. hack for it here: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828
     
    disgust, Oct 3, 2006 IP
  3. I. Brian

    I. Brian Business consultant

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    That's a interesting mod - will add it to the list. :)
     
    I. Brian, Oct 4, 2006 IP