Fighting Spam on the Board

[Dave]

Last week we had about 20 bogus accounts setup and some rather nasty SPAM posts. I have taken some steps to counter this.

1. All of the suspect accounts and posts were deleted (they all originated in Russia - and they all registered on the same day)
2. A more secure method of authentication called "reCAPTCHA™" has been implemented for new user registration to try and eliminate bots registering.
3. Registration should now be limited to users with ips originating in Canada.

Later all.

[justmed]

I'm an admin at another vbulletin site with a tonne of traffic and we are battling spam daily, hourly even. Might I suggest taking the steps to ban e-mail domains, there are usual offenders and some we found in another thread at vbulletin.com... go into admin, then vbulletin options, then banning options and copy the list into banned e-mail addresses. Should help

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[justmed]

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[smartsexystylish]

WOW! That is alot of addresses!!!

David,
Yea I noticed that last week also. I was also thinking about messaging you about taking a couple extra steps to ensure stopping these bogus accounts, but I didn't want to step on your feet about it. I also didn't know how much time you dedicate to this site.

Thanks for making this board better =)

[Dave]

Well I'm admittedly not dedicating that much time to it. Don't worry about stepping on toes. I'm not going to let ego get in the way of any good suggestions...

Cheers.