And you call that a problem?!?! haha jk

Forums need moderation, otherwise they will be spammers heaven. Welcome to the internet

Yeah, don't let it get to you.

You should be able to set up your forum so that comments must be approved before being posted. Try doing that so that you don't get any more porn threads.

Also, if you need moderators, it is possible to outsource that responsibility to someone else, you could even ask a friend to do it. just a thought.

Cheers,

Steve

One problem I see with that is, assuming you have any ad networks on there, the fact that there's porno on there might mean you're breaking their TOS even though you're not the one posting. I'm pretty sure the ad networks consider you responsible for anything that ends up on your page - even if you could prove it was done by a hacker.

Those guys are hurting for links, traffic, etc. and will do anything they can to direct traffic to their sites. Some of us are pretty spammy...but those that promote THOSE kinds of sites can really lay on the spam...

You should have some active members on your forum become moderators to watch out for these things.


Steve

If you're looking to maintain quality and not become a spam farm, unfortunately you cannot let a forum run on auto-pilot. You need to either moderate it yourself or have moderators in place.

Depending on how active it is, you can probably get some of the senior/regular members to moderate for you as a volunteer (or for a small fee if it's worth it for you), or like others said, outsource the task.

If you just let it be, it will continue to go downhill and become nothing but a very large spam farm.

Consider this, if the WF was left "alone" for just 1 day, probably even for just a few hours, with no moderators and no members reporting spam/offensive posts, all you would see around here is spam, spam, and more spam. You notice it really late at night sometimes when spam posts are popping up all over but not necessarily getting nuked as quickly as they should (mods need to sleep too I figure), but by day-time they're gone. WF is probably one of the best moderated forums I've ever been on anywhere on the 'net so you can learn a thing or two from here.

I recently added a mod that asks if you are human upon registration. This has cut back the spam signups by heaps! You do need to keep an eye on the forum though as some will still get through, you can't just leave it unattended

also, backup files and DB from current site and update your forum script if available. Sometimes updates can help close spam loopholes. Always have a recovery plan in place before updating or installing new plugins, just in case. Also, check with your forum's support boards and I'll bet you'll get spot-on recommendations on anti-spam plugins. Good luck (and save the good porn!) heh

I had a captcha plus needed to confirm registration in an email but was still getting a lot of spam. I would have thought that would have been enough. So then I installed the 'are you human' question mod and that has just almost stopped it completely. I still have the captcha and confirmation email along with the 'are you human' and that seems to have done the trick

People around here call that "link building."

From the phpbb forum

phpBB • Search

There are quite a few ways of doing it, by the look of these threads. And, here are links to various modifications:

phpBB • KeyCAPTCHA - Contribution Details
phpBB • Peoplesign CAPTCHA plugin - Contribution Details
phpBB • Sortables CAPTCHA Plugin - Contribution Details

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I am using akismet in one of my websistes as a moderator....for forum sites you need a moderator..many are spamming and got themselves blacklisted..

I came across a really clever mod that asked you a randomized question... "What is one of the primary colours?" was one, I think, and some other basic questions that are almost impossible for non-humans to answer. Human spammers are another ballgame entirely. :rolleyes: