Hello everyone, glad to see all of you. recently i am planing to build a entertainment forum. i want to collect people to talk about the fuuny things here, but I was also worried that whether there may be many spammers to post here, because i don't have too many times to here, so it is maybe trouble to dete the spammmers everyone, is there anybody can tell me a good way to stop spammner. thank you

There is no one good way here's a few tips that I use on a couple of forums.

Don't allow signature links until they have proved themselves.
Don't allow profile links.
Don't allow links in posts until you trust the member.
Block live links from "guests" AND search engines.

Genuine, USEFUL members don't really care about live links in forum posts.

Make it as useless as possible for them to hang around and post their useless junk.

block hotmail.com, yahoo.everything, live.com, gmail.com, sify.com & mail.ru email addresses plus any *.in, *.pk *.vn email hosts from registering.

Do NOT allow unverified email addresses
Do NOT allow "guest" posting.

Block the entire IP ranges for India, Pakistan, Vietnam, China, Russian and Romania for a start.

Use the stopforumspam.com plugin to block known spammers

block usernames that contain "coach", "bags", "nike", "shoes", "seo", "expert", "cvv", "weightloss", "diet", "loan", "online", "credit", "card", "money", "vanhire", "carhire" plus all the sex, porn and drug related words you can think of or find.


CAPTCHA on registration is fairly useless as the spammers pay drones (usually Indian or Pakistan "freelancers" or WAHM armies) to mass register on forums.

If your forum allows it block more than one registration per IP for fifteen minutes, it doesn't stop them but it makes the drones work harder.


read st http://spam-ip.com/how-to-block-forum-spam.php
http://www.stopfourumspam.com register for their API

I Moderated a couple forum sites for a bit. It sucked. I had so much spam to clean up it was rediculous.

Make sure most of your moderation is script driven so you don't have to manually delete posts. Have a script that pics up on link dumping and keyword stuffing. Automatically deletes users who sent a large number of PMs in given day.

Mostly forum spam consists of link dumping for Viagra and diet pills.