A lot of my spammers are coming from: 78.57.187.31
]]>One thing I did on one of my forums, is added a captcha and also a complex worded question. It seemed to work for me, before that I was getting like 20 fake sign ups per day, after 0.
was the "complex worded question" easy to integrate with ASP ?
(i obviously know nothing about setting up captcha)
thank you
]]>Now by ban on Cloudflare, a visitor is not banned completely however presented with a challenge page.
]]>I understand the problem you guys are having with spam (I am a moderator on a porn forum) but for a support forum there is nothing more frustrating than needing the support and then waiting to get approval to be able to get it.
In my case it even took longer because the initial username I chose was not approved (had ASP in it) so I had to create another username, use another email address and request approval again.
Ok, it wasn't the end of the world but it still took longer than I hoped for.
(BTW, bug report on the run about the forum: if you use an email address that has already been used to register, the forum doesn't give any error or warning messages but loads a blank page with no info at all.)
Just an idea, since you guys are going through the process of manually approving every user and are still getting such a shitload of new spam members, maybe it is better to do it the other way around:
- Disable creation of new members.
- Members wanting to join need to send an email with their requested username, you guys create the account and send an approval email with the full enabled account.
That will take the same amount of time for you but will kill all spam new users.
Anyway, thanks for approving me.
]]>ATM i´ve 3 or more daily registrations on the tube - all are 20 years old and and add as location Los Angeles, USA. Their ips say all come from Russia.
]]>New members, need manual approval for posts in forum (and blogs in our case).
For every picture, video or forum post a member post, they earn (x) points.
When a member has earned (xx) points, they are automatically upgraded to Verified membership.
When your upgraded to Verified member, you no longer have to wait for approval on your posts.
It might be a few minutes work a day, to verify and check things, but 99,9% of the spammers give up, cause it takes too much time and work from their side, and they move on to next forum to annoy them instead :-)
So, its an easy way to get rid of most spammers, and make your site seem more serious...
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