registration advice
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Topic: registration advice
Posted By: alabamatoy
Subject: registration advice
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 3:06am
| I am having progressively more problems with spammers signing up to the two webwiz forums that I manage. What options and alternatives do I have to reduce this? Is registration moderation possible? I cant find it in the admin. What other alternatives are there? |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 January 2010 at 10:12am
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The page below tells you how to setup Web Wiz Forums to protect from spammers:- http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/spam_prevention.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.webwiz.net/webwizforums/kb/spam_prevention.asp ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 18 January 2010 at 9:48am
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I created a group specifically for spammers that holds all their posts for moderation. I did this as an alternative to banning them, since banning them just results in them signing up for a new account anyway. Most of the time they do not notice they were put into that user group, so they never get the benefit of their posts, since they never appear to the public.
In our case, we called it "Brig Awardee" since we use Pirate/Navy ranks on our forums. It's Navy-speak for a person put in jail. Wonder how many people figured that out without Googling it.  I also use this for trouble-makers who I want to monitor their posts, but who do not warrant a full banning. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |