[Casinomeister]

Originally Posted by Chatmaster

One of the forums I moderate has major spam issues. It is driving us up the wall and I wondered what advice any of you might have to combat spam on vBulletin forums?

Also anybody familiar with the following? http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=134778

I haven't checked out that hack too much, but if a poster were to post a URL to evilcasino.com as a warning to others, he'd get nailed as a spammer.

At Casinomeister, the sign-ups are moderated. I did this after WOL and I got swamped with a bunch of Russian spammers. I don't know if it was a something automated or what, but all of the fields such as "location" "favorite film" etc. were filled with nonsense like dfdfdfdf

So now if you sign up, I check each profile out to make sure they are filling out the fields with legitimate answers. The sign-up instructions state that fields must not have "bogus" answers such as ewewewe etc. When I come across these accounts, I delete them - simple as that.

After a while, it becomes second nature on figuring out who is going to spam by looking at what they fill in. I usually catch them pretty fast. Then they get publicly executed.

You can also disallow posting hyperlinks for certain user groups (check out the user group settings). You can have newbies who initially sign up belonging to a group that can't have hyperlinks in their text. It's still spam though, but it won't have a hyper link. Hope this helps.