Dealing with forum spammers

[makubwa]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

I think forum members can offer their services in the right categories - that of course is not spam, that is why there are trader ratings here. External offers need to be deleted on landing.

[Electric-Shadow]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Well chances are is if the admins arent around for a a good few hours someone will see the spam and click on it, even if its just to see what it's about, boosting PR could also be another reason. I guess you could ask how long is a piece of string too

[Stroh]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

I hate forum spammers, but sometimes I have to deal with them. I usually ban their accounts, and I started to manually activate accounts. Then I quit doing that, and I haven't seen much spammers anymore...

[mr_wolf]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

All people hate forum spammers I usually bans spammers or delete all spammers posts it help me

[Underwater_demon]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Hey all i have problem too in my forum.There are a lot of spammers and i cant ban it and dont know why , what can i do then???!

[PostFootball]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Try and warn them, And if they keep advertising there site Ban there sites name from being Used and ban there ip and Ban proxys, Just do anything they will soon give up.

[Fernis]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

Many of the spammers are automated. If you can add a custom registration field that would be unique and not programmed into the spam bot. You could ask something like the color of there eyes or shoe size for example.

[Ramage]

Re: Dealing with forum spammers

I have learnt from past experiences that sometimes the accounts are manually made. The only effective way that I've found is to use e-mail activation as they use fake emails... Another good way to is promote every good, active user into a moderator

[amycheung]

Moderators

That's why forum moderators are so important. Usually the forum owner is only one person who can't stay logged onto his/her forum 24/7. Many forum owners would approach the most active members and ask them to be mods, either for free or pay them to do it. I've seen forums that have members who are so passionate about the forum topic that there was always people volunteering to be moderator. They had so many volunteers that they asked members to vote to pick out moderators! And they had a moderator responsible for each section of their forum. This way each mod would only monitor their own section by logging in like once a day at least, so that any spam could be deleted quickly. This is the best arrangement I've seen for forum monitoring.

[smarty]

THE BEST WAY

in any forum either phpbb, vbulletin or any other forum
just use additional field of custom question while registration, or you can do same for posting.

i've done same and really telling u that i've no moderators

just one admin

[Captain Tycoon]

It does work but it doesn't have a big audience since most people hate spam. It works for newbies, but i hate spam and would do anything to stop it.