Forum Spammed
While it has been pretty quiet around here lately (busy busy busy), it does not stop the FuCoder forum getting spammed. I am having not-so-fun time deleting hundreds of posts over the last two days (while my home Internet connection is down). Actually I didn’t click on “Delete” on each of them but a single SQL does the trick, but it is annonying nevertheless.
It turns out PunBB has pretty much non-existing spam protection. Neither are plugins of any use. The forums were opened for guest posting so people asking questions do not need to create an account, but it has been abused by the spammers (or spambots?) to flood their junks on my website.
So for now, no more guest posting on the forum — you need to register a user. It has certainly slow down the littering rate, but I know it also introduced inconvenience to those who just wish to ask one question…
Any other good light-weight open source forum software that has good spam protection?
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Yes CAPTCHA will certainly help. PunBB also has a Akismet plugin now. The thing is I am too lazy to integrate it :) I’ll put that on my todo for this week…
As of moderators, there’s none. The forum here is only used for people to ask questions regarding the WP plugins or JS I’ve placed here, and I don’t want to use blog comments.
Does anyone know if and how is it possible to get no G image when the gravatar is not found (email not registered with any gravatar)?
I want to display a different avatar chosen by user, but if I put it in the “default” var, it will be cached - which I don’t want. Only found gravatars I want to be cached/shown.
Does anyone have any idea how can I get that “gravatar_id = false” from gravatar.com url?
Thanks.
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Can’t you just tag a captcha system on there? At least it would stop the automated spam. You could also give ‘trusted’ members moderation priviledges for spam only and/or moderate before displaying.