Help for a fellow moderator?

podunk · Post by **podunk** » December 4th, 2006, 11:17 pm

Hi!

First of all I finally got around to compiling 1.1.12 and it's beautiful! I really like the new troll whelps! Better landscape tiles - everything is much more polished than it was.

This may be the wrong place to ask this. I'm a moderator for another board using the same software as this one.

We're just getting spamed all to heck. I never see any spam here. What mods or plugins are you using?

Thank you in advance for your time!

podunk

Post by **Darth Fool** » December 5th, 2006, 1:32 am

Well, for mods we rely heavily on our forum sith such as Maeglin Dubh and the developers. To prevent spam we require registration, and I am pretty sure we ban the ip for any spam that actually comes through. As for specific phpBB modules, I can't say for sure, but I think that we run a pretty clean install, although one of the admins would have to comment to be sure.

podunk · Post by **podunk** » December 5th, 2006, 1:36 pm

Thank you Darth!

Obviously we'll just have to have one of our mods feel the dark side of the force!

Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » December 5th, 2006, 6:44 pm

Any spam that does get through is immediately shunted to a hidden forum, where it is flagged and left for an Admin to ban the IP. If all you're doing as moderators is deleting spam as it appears, you're going to fight a never-ending flood. Software security will help, but so will IP banning of all known spammers.