An Idea to stop spam..

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by EMPiRE

The only problem I got with moderating posts is that you give yourself A LOT of extra work checking these posts as only about 1% will be spam, is that worth the effort as most spam is removed & an ip ban is added

Yes, I think it's worth the effort if it is enabled only for users with less than X posts. Anyway, let's try it - if it's possible with the current board software and configuration - for a week or so and we'll see...

[Luciel]

@ Empire

You´re right i use phpbb but it doesn´t matter it´s a generic php script, all you have to figure out is where to add the required 2 lines (on phpbb it was at the top of one file and that was it), i dunno, can´t hurt to have a look?, pm me your e-mail addie and i will send it to you if you want.

[EMPiRE]

I did not find a post moderation plugin with a selectable post number

But I installed another plugin which uses Stop Forum Spam. When a new user registers his ip or email is tested against the database @ stopforumspam.com and rejected when it exists

It's active now but I did not check it yet...