SPAM in the forum

[Ñuño Martínez]

I have modified the settings for regular members to allow reporting of posts to moderators.

Much better!

[edit] I can see the link in this post but not in others (i.e. this and this)

[WILL]

Finally! Not a single moderated thread in the entire forums.

Took me a few hours, but I cleaned out the site of all old buried spam and unapproved legit posts. A big oops and sorry to all those we missed. We are trying to do better!!!

As of now the only place that may gather future (hidden!) spam is the New Members forum where new PGD members have to post to let us know that they are human.

[paul_nicholls]

Nice work!

[Andru]

Great! The only one thing which is left - avoid all these strange names below the forum in section "Currently Active Users". Why not to use "anti-spambot question(s)" on registration page? Or they are already used in pair with new "Welcome to PGD!" email?

[SilverWarior]

If you haven't noticed already the number off theese strange names reduced quite a lot. Now you can actually see who is presen on the forum without browsing trough several pages on active users list.

[Andru]

I noticed this

[WILL]

Spambots give up as they cannot do anything since most of their usual tricks don't seem to be letting them post. Poor spambots.

Great! The only one thing which is left - avoid all these strange names below the forum in section "Currently Active Users". Why not to use "anti-spambot question(s)" on registration page? Or they are already used in pair with new "Welcome to PGD!" email?

Not something that we can really consider without majorly modifying the site software. Which is also something we won't do as a measure of experience telling us not to. We have however been thinking of ways to eliminate specific telltale things that spambots seem to tell us when they make up these stupid accounts, but most of that is up to the vBulletin folks to implement into vBulletin.

I'm planning on addressing this with the vBulletin development team to tr to get the ball rolling on some better basic anti-spam or spam reducing features in the future.

The next update (which is already released) will help add better moderation to blogs. Currently they can make blog posts without being restricted by their membership status. (Moderated Member vs Regular Member) This has been changed and we can now restrict New (Moderated) Members from creating new blogs posts.

We currently get a minimal amount of spam blog posts, but you still won't see them as regular members.