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How can I stop Spam?
I have a Forum/Blog that I have been trying to get up and running. Right now I want to tackle the problem of having a huge amount of spam being generated by people -- or bots -- who are trying to register.
It is a payed web site (to keep out the riff-raff) and people have to buy a subscription to the site. But, suprisingly, this does not stop my inbox from being flooded by "requests for a username".
Most of the time, the email addresses in these messages are fake. But sometimes they are not but when I email these persons back, I am ignored. So they really are just spammers looking for a way of posting ad content on my web site for free.
The Registration page has a CAPTCHA Code required entry field.
But I wonder if the bots are sophisticated enough to get past that.
The user has to click on the "I accept the agreements" field but the agreements field clearly tells the user that they have to buy a subscription. If they do not click on that check box they get this.
One way I want to try to keep from getting all this spam is to make it such that the registration button is inactive until they click on the subscribe button
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I have a Forum/Blog that I have been trying to get up and running. Right now I want to tackle the problem of having a huge amount of spam being generated by people -- or bots -- who are trying to register.
It is a payed web site (to keep out the riff-raff) and people have to buy a subscription to the site. But, suprisingly, this does not stop my inbox from being flooded by "requests for a username".
Most of the time, the email addresses in these messages are fake. But sometimes they are not but when I email these persons back, I am ignored. So they really are just spammers looking for a way of posting ad content on my web site for free.
The Registration page has a CAPTCHA Code required entry field.
But I wonder if the bots are sophisticated enough to get past that.
The user has to click on the "I accept the agreements" field but the agreements field clearly tells the user that they have to buy a subscription. If they do not click on that check box they get this.
One way I want to try to keep from getting all this spam is to make it such that the registration button is inactive until they click on the subscribe button
How do I go about making that happen?
What platform are you using right now? If you're using Wordpress, try downloading the Askimet plugin - it blocks (almost all) spam - and it's a safe plugin.
Hope this helps,
Elizabeth <snip>
Last edited by ClickyB : April 25th, 2011 at 11:44 AM.
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Originally Posted by Eliebel
What platform are you using right now? If you're using Wordpress, try downloading the Askimet plugin - it blocks (almost all) spam - and it's a safe plugin.
Hope this helps,
Elizabeth, <snip>
Yes, I suggest this too If you using wordpress. If you using Joomla, to protect from register spam user you can use "email confirmation" at joomla register (or disable user register at all). You can find this option at general setting menu.
Last edited by ClickyB : April 25th, 2011 at 11:44 AM.
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They are 7 ways to avoid spam happen if you using wordpress.
http://mashable.com/2008/02/10/fighting-spam-wordpress/
WP Spam Hitman
Spam Karma 2
Simple Trackback Validation
Simple CAPTCHA
Defensio.com
Bad Behavior
Akismet
Del.icio.us
Digg
Google
Spurl
Blink
Furl
Simpy
Y! MyWeb
Linear Mode
