Dealing with forum spammers

[Denny]

Why do so many people think that forum spamming is worth while? I've seen administrators dealing with dozens of spam posts a day even after bot prevention software was installed.

Those posts just get deleted! It's not worth it...right?

[forumposters]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Well, most of us forum owners are actively monitoring our boards for this kind of stuff. But, a few boards are left unmonitored for some reason or another and if these spammers find the right board at the right time, they get a few backlinks out of their dasterdly deed. It's sad, but it pays off for some of these guys.

Why do so many people think that forum spamming is worth while? I've seen administrators dealing with dozens of spam posts a day even after bot prevention software was installed.

Those posts just get deleted! It's not worth it...right?

[LennyP]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

It is merely a case of quantity over quality. Usually it is just bots doing the spamming so it takes no more than a a few moments to set up. If out of the 1,000's of sites they hit only a couple dozen stay that makes it worth it to them. Unfortunately spam is a problem that will probably never go away.

[moniker]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

You are talking about automated spamming, I presume? But there is a lot of spamming done by forum members, and that's a tougher question.

[.Tine.]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

I have a lot of spamming at my forum too .
Like not tons, but everyday 2 or 3 spam posts...
I just delete them, and block those ip's .
One day I will have all ip's I hope... Then nobody can spam anymore .

[mattmc419]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

lol Tine that'll take awhile - - always somebody new that can spam. However, just banning the IPs and not allowing proxy IP's is the best way to go

[.Tine.]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

lol Tine that'll take awhile - - always somebody new that can spam. However, just banning the IPs and not allowing proxy IP's is the best way to go

Yeah I know...
But that way they can't make new spam posts...
It's also since I am promoting my site at a site... Maybe I should just quit that...
But spam is really hatefull... It takes you so much time!!
But spam, is everywere, and I don't think we can do much about it...
There is even spam at the official site of a famous belgian artist...

[Mynde50]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

spam in forum is very boring i read forum here is only spam

[Balcas]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Spammers flood the site , cousing trouble for other users , like they may bumb old topic and couse new ones to go down etc . They need to be suspented/banned .

[sweetnatie]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Looks like this thread is a floodfest.

[hellmet]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

What I did to tackle this problem was to Enable the Captcha system , then when that failed, enable user-activation through email. ( This helped a lot), and finally moderator activation when things went really crazy. Usually spammers can be caught by their emails. They usually are something like offers, sexygirls, hotsex..@ loancredits, givemesex, or something like that .com .

[MrsWrite]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Spammers on forums are so annoying. I'll go to look at a thread thinking it's a good topic, then when I start reading a post I realize it's just spam. It's a waste.

[shanee86]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Yea spammers are annoying they seem to like all my forums and my hosting forum or support forum. I mean it is a support forum and they post ads. But yea I been adding things to try and stop them.

[makubwa]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

I used to run a fishing forum, used to get loads of spam, it the first post did not have anything about fishing in it, Used to ban the accounts, also began to manually verify new users which took ages!

[Captain Tycoon]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

If you want to stop spam then add a custom question on registeration, e.g. what is 2+2= , bots cant answer those.