[email protected] wrote: > I may not be asking this question on the list, but here goes. I am new to > administrating a phpbb forum on my site. I have been getting tons of > spammers and am trying to figure out how to possibly eliminate the problem. > I am running phpbb3 on Ubuntu 9.10 Server. I have read about the MODS for > textual questions and answers but cannot figure out how to install them on > Ubuntu. > > Anyone have any ideas on how to help alleviate the spamming problem of a > forum board? > > Any help or pointers is greatly appreciated, or you can tell me I am in the > wrong place for this question if that is the case > > Thank you > > Randy > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > A fairly simple workaround is to add a custom field to the registration page, that has an incorrect default value.
For instance, you could ask, "What year is this?" In this case, you would set a default value of 2009 (or 1982, or whatever past year you want), and set the field value so it must be greater than, or equal to 2010, in order to successfully register a forum user. This for me has pretty much stopped forum spam in its tracks. - Jim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
