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 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?

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.