simon
Key Master
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In an attempt to kill two birds with one stone the forums have been upgraded to bbPress 2. What this means is:
- We’re off a dead code line from bbPress 1
- All forums data has essentially been re-imported into a completely new system – links may be broken and some things may not work yet
- Hopefully this will allow me to use some up-to-date features/plugins to better address the spam problem
Let me know what works and what doesn’t, and we’ll see how this goes!
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NickDMax
Member
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Well its new… can’t say I am a fan of the style sheet but if it reduces the spam I am all for it!
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simon
Key Master
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Time will tell, 20 spam account creations since last night and only one post to delete. I’m tempted to add the moderation plugin that blocks posts from new members until a moderator approves them – we’ll see what happens.
I’m not keen on the theme particularly, but will need to find some time at some point to look at alternatives.
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horus
Member
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I don’t mind about the style/look-n-feel. But I’ve found that my password was not correct and I had to reset it — no problem.
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Beman
Participant
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Mailman has an option to initially moderate (i.e. block) posts when an account is opened. Several lists I moderate then set the account to no moderation required if the initial post has reasonable technical content. Very effective at stopping spam, yet easy on the moderators.
–Beman
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Annihilannic
Participant
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On a forum that I administrate the simple addition of a compulsory “why do you want to join this forum” field stopped 99% of spam registrations.
Apparently just too much effort for the lazy spammers to think of something convincing!
By the way, is there anything we can do about the spammers hijacking pnotepad.org/docs all the time? I created my own login but did not have edit access so was unable to revert to the previous legitimate version. How do the spammers do it?
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simon
Key Master
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For the docs, you should have edit access the same as the spammers – there are currently only two classes of user on there – Admin and User, both have edit rights.
Given how few people contribute to the docs, I may move to moderated submission – i.e. you have to wait to get approved to edit.
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simon
Key Master
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This is now done, the front page is completely locked down – only admins can edit it. New users now have read permissions only, and access for editing will be granted after asking for permission here or via mail.
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