Management hellreturn Posted August 20, 2012 Management Share Posted August 20, 2012 Any admin facing spam issues on their forums? It seems spammers are going crazy lately on our forums. Just wondering if other admins running their clan forums are also experiencing same issue or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckun Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 (edited) This usually happens when your forum URL gets put on a list that is given or sold to spammers.. Source: My long history of battling spammers xD Edited August 20, 2012 by Chuckun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantasm Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 From my own time there, it seemed most of the content was spam... including the stuff I wrote lol. Actually it probably has more to do with the size of the forum to make it worth spamming. Chuckun 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petbark Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 We use to get alot of spam on our forums. How we stopped it was by introducing a random number when registering and logging in which means we 1 bit of spam a month. My wife runs a parenting forum and again we added a captcha to her login and again virtually no spam. The |ABC| forum has 250 members and the wifes has over 10,000. So it works for any size forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management hellreturn Posted August 21, 2012 Author Management Share Posted August 21, 2012 I am actually talking about mygamingtalk.com forum We use recaptcha since day one. I thought cloudfare would take care of the issue but it seems it didn't. Then I started using http://stopforumspam.com/ API and it's doing wonderful job. In 2 days, 53 spammers blocked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dookie Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 sucks to hear that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckun Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 I am actually talking about mygamingtalk.com forum We use recaptcha since day one. I thought cloudfare would take care of the issue but it seems it didn't. Then I started using http://stopforumspam.com/ API and it's doing wonderful job. In 2 days, 53 spammers blocked. ReCAPTCHA was cracked probably roughly since MyGamingTalk was opened SolveMedia seems pretty good as an alternative Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Jordan Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 What is a spam? It is something which is undesirous to the people participating on the forum. Unless the post they are making have some sense and are useful in one or the other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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