Hey all, I need someone to apply a few hacks to my phpbb. Not a rocket science, but I dont have the time to do this and its getting on my nerves. Pls msg me with your approach and rate and lets do this. cheers, nik
Assuming this is for the forum in your sig, ust a few quick hits - see if these make any significant difference: Account Activation: change from <user> to <admin> Flood Control: Raise to 60 seconds See how those go
I need to make some kind of hindrance to those spambots. They are currently registering and posting without any problems. I need to add some kind of mod to the forum to restrict them.
Having had a second look at the spammers on your forum, they're pretty easy to detect starting with their username. Given this, I'd simply change the account activation from User to Admin - that way you can quickly scan and allow/reject new activations, based on the name they pick.
OK. I want reps for this: Search Textual Registration mod in Phpbb.com and use that. This way, while registering, your users will have to answer a question that you decide such as 2+2=? and no bot in the world can answer this unless they are human beings. It works wonders for me. After I installed it, I never had even 1 single spam from bots.
Hello ! As vex said , thats one of the best methods to prevent different bots registering and making spam posts ! Just download and install this script and lets see the result http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=383788. Its takes 2 minutes to install this script Thanks Olgi