Spam in this forum

globalworming

Dear admins

The spam in this forum gets pretty annoying. Could you please add some kind of human verification to the registration process for this forum?

Dear users

does this spam annoys you too, or do you think it's ok?

Regards
Wormi

TSheeley

It's very annoying!!!!!

narayan

Hi Wormi and TSheeley,
There is a captcha during registration and an email is sent to the user for verification. But people seem to be determined to spam. Let me know if you have suggestions. I could even make you moderators so that you can delete these users right away.
Regards,
Narayan

globalworming

Good that there is a verification.
But the bots seem to overcome it, I guess.. manual registration for posting a few links makes no real sense, doesn't it?
If you will, I'd be glad to delete the strange posts. This should be more satisfying and faster than clicking on "report".

Regards
Wormi

globalworming

I really doubt, that there are much humans spamming here. There where another 4 posts today and I'd say, a user would write more sophisticated spam.
The captcha in your registration process is pretty simple, maybe switch that for a more complicated verification. Or maybe this could be interesting for you: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/98225/#p98225

Regards
Wormi

globalworming

Maybe switching to http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/recaptcha/docs/php.html might block bots better. These captchas are pretty hard to solve, I don't really like them, but they might work better.
Please try the Bad Behavior Plugin, 2-3 spam posts a day are too much, I think.

globalworming

Narayan... please..
at least give me the rights to delete these posts... It's getting more and more spam and it's very frustrating to report the spam when nobody takes care of it.

narayan

Hi Wormi,

It really has become annoying. Sorry for the pain. I will integrate recaptcha over the weekend.
I am also making you the moderator.

Thanks,
Narayan

globalworming

Thanks.. I will start working right now

globalworming

hey narayan

could you please grant me the permission to delete posts/users, I couldn't find these functions anywhere so I suppose you may have forgotten about that.