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Green Eggs and Spam?

post #1 of 6
11/22/07 at 10:09pm
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The amount of on the forums recently has been out of control.

Possible remedies:
  • Spam Filter – posts caught by the same filter are unpublished until they can be reviewed by an admin
  • CAPTCHA – Implement a CAPTCHA upon registration. When I implemented CAPTCHA for anonymous commenting and registration on the website site I admin, the amount of spam I received was cut from an average of 70 spams per day to zero spams since the installation of the CAPTCHA. One excellent, solution for CAPTCHA is reCAPTCHA.
  • Graduated Posting – Since SPAM on forums could also just as easily be posted by a human manually than a spambot, implementing graduated posting would prevent human spam. For a user's first 10 (or some such number) posts, their comments have to be moderated before they are published.
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post #2 of 6
11/23/07 at 5:34am
I agree 100%.
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post #3 of 6
11/24/07 at 6:58pm
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Spam:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81558
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81562
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81563
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81560
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81557
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81556
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81559
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=81561

You could feed entire third-world countries with that much Spam.

This is unacceptable. DO something about this.
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post #4 of 6
11/25/07 at 6:01am
A simple speed limit would probably help too. The spammers seem to turn up, post a bunch of crap at once and disappear. What if it took a hour before they could post again after first post? Two hours? A day? The speed limit could last, say, until they have made five posts or been members for a week. Newbs do well to read more than they post, anyway.

This could work in conjunction with graduated posting to ensure the admins don't have to read through as much spam.
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post #5 of 6
11/30/07 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by Gon View Post

A simple speed limit would probably help too. The spammers seem to turn up, post a bunch of crap at once and disappear. What if it took a hour before they could post again after first post? Two hours? A day? The speed limit could last, say, until they have made five posts or been members for a week. Newbs do well to read more than they post, anyway.

This could work in conjunction with graduated posting to ensure the admins don't have to read through as much spam.

I do agree that something needs to be done, but your idea would be very annoying and would frustrate a lot of people. It's just not worth it.
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post #6 of 6
12/29/07 at 7:10pm
With some extra programming, one could set limits for newly registered users, like

* no more than 5 posts per hour
* first 10 posts moderated
* first 10 posts with captchas
* etc...

All this is not supported by standard vBulletin though \

-t
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