Preventing Spam Posts

[Duke]

I'm sure you've all noticed the amount of spammers that are only here to link drop and move on in a weak attempt to gain a backlink, exposure or some other nefarious purposes.

I noticed you guys are using vB 3.6.3 and there is a mod available that helps keep this crap out of the forums called Prevent Spam (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131568).

I actually use it at Lifesupporters and it's great because the spam goes into a queue that only staff can see and can be dealt with behind the scenes leaving your forums clean; the part that google sees anyway. The nice thing is you get to ban these tards right off the bat and fortunately enough they've left an e-mail address, IP and username which can also be used against them in the even of re-registering (which they usually do).

Anyway I just thought I'd mention it because there's nothing more frustrating than bots and/or ignorant spamtards.

[Duke]

...unfortunately however it does not catch all forms of spam as you can plainly see :rolleyes:

[Phil Staff]

Duke,

No worries. We haven't added the Prevent Spam module yet. The administrators wanted to try a Captcha version first. Until then we remain vigilant in fighting spam on our forum.

Phil

[vuvuzela]

wow I didn't thought that it is possible for you guys to capture or filter spams in here. I am impressed on the way they handle this kind of issues.

[daveysmith]

wow I didn't thought that it is possible for you guys to capture or filter spams in here. I am impressed on the way they handle this kind of issues.

now why would you think something like that?

[engival]

now why would you think something like that?

I think I know what he means. It's because in other forums, most admins would have given up in trying to get rid of spammers.