Hi there not sure of this is the right thread here but I have problem with spammers. This was with a old forum I had which I don't have no more as it really annoyed me as they ruined my last forum. This time there not going to do it that easy. Well I hope not lol See am good with computers and spam and things but I am not sure with MyBB as am using that with my New forum which I want to be a success. Let me explain the problem I had with other forum which I was gutted to let it go.
I had members from like russia or where ever they was from posting things like sdfdgnsdv like that and a load of links . Is there anything I can use on myBB to prevent this.
Yeah ive done that all now. Thanks soo much , I just don't want this forum to go the way my last one went . Hate spammers , thanks again. Great forum this is and fast responese 🙂
Recently, I've had some issues with spammers as well. Since they were using a lot of different IPs, I just opted to ban their extension. I put a ban on *.pl, *.xyz and *.eu Obviously I wouldn't do this with a .com or other important extension. XD
If you find that a large number of spammers are using emails from an obscure source, you can ban the source like I have.
I do feel sorry for any genuine member that might try to use those domain extensions, but I also know that it's highly unlikely that I'll get users from Poland, or users with an .xyz email address. It's really annoying because I know that the ones signing up to the forum are being initialised by humans bypassing the anti-spam features. You just gotta do whatever is necessary to keep them out of your site.
Thanks for the reply and yeah it is very annoying I had a really good forum last time which they destroyed. it was a walking dead forum. I just checked your site looks good I might join it as Techboy
I agree with @Vaador with the captcha which is a neat way of preventing spammers to post. However, captcha is a turn off to some users. I, for one, had left one forum that employs a captcha which I had to answer whenever I would post. There are captcha puzzles that are hard to determine when using the smart phone (especially when the screen is small). What they do in some forum that I know is to block/ban the IP of the spammer. And although the spammer will use another IP address, it will be like a game of hide-and-seek between the spammer and the mods and eventually the spammer would run out of IP addresses to use.
@Corzhens you're absolutely right. Captchas on posts are really terrible idea since they are annoying for the genuine members. I would leave a forum if they did that too. A captcha for signing up is probably a necessary evil though. XD
Does myBB have any sort of Akismet or StopForumSpam plugins? I use both of those services in addition to Google's Recaptcha as was previously mentioned in the thread.
