How do you deal with forum spam?

[wasi90lk]

I was really struggling with spammers a few days ago, then I started to use stronger captcha. It finally got rid of spammers from my forum.

What about you? How do you deal with spam?

 

[Arariel]

I have a CAPTCHA as well. Either the creator of these spam bots is getting smarter, or the CAPTCHAS just fail, as I continually have some spam bots that slip through. I mainly just ban them all, sometimes by IP if the IPs get too similar.

 

[Sharon]

I visit my forums regularly so I am able to catch the spam posters rather quickly. I simply lock the thread and move them to what I call the recycling bin.

 

[LEADTECH]

Put a Captcha Verification register forum thru email activation
This will avoid spammers

 

[Justin]

One of the easiest ways to tackle spam in forums is by rewarding members for reporting spam. When you reward members for reporting, You will have a lot of self appointed moderators.

 

[Kaffyfolla]

1. Ensure links in your forum are set to 'nofollow' ...
2. Make sure registration includes a CAPTCHA. ...
3. Require email confirmation. ...
4. Enable anti-spam plugins. ...
5. Don't allow editing of comments after a few minutes have passed. ...
6. Get the whole community involved. ...
7. Be ruthless. ...
8. Restrict who can post links.

 

[Bousine123]

I make sure my forum requires email address from members, I restrict who post links, I make sure that people do not edit a post few minutes after posting and I use CAPTCHA.

 

[BrolySSJ]

I think that this is probably the hardest thing to deal with because there is always ways that these people weed in however i think that the best thing to do is to have a strict moderation or even an approval policy.

 

[Saachi]

I think this is probably the hardest part because there are always ways for these people to get involved, but I think the best way is to have a strict moderation or approval policy.

 

[frederick_9]

Rewarding forum users for reporting spam is one of the simplest strategies to combat spam.
You will have a lot of self-appointed moderators if you compensate users for reporting.

 

[HK World]

Yes, adding CAPTHA to the account registration process is a great way to get rid of spammers. Besides that, you can also add anti-spam plugins to your website.

 

[Kane]

There was a time when I was receiving over 100 spam posts on my site. Later I realized that the new members were not required to verify their emails to get forum access. When I changed the rules for email verification, spam reduced by 80 percent

 

[Planbizzle]

I was really struggling with spammers a few days ago, then I started to use stronger captcha. It finally got rid of spammers from my forum.

What about you? How do you deal with spam?

To make sure that users tell how to post appropriately, it can be helpful to establish rules and guidelines. Users who repeatedly break those rules should be banned. In order for moderators to effectively deal with any spam content that has been submitted to your forum, it can be useful to build up a mechanism where members can flag postings that seem to be spam.