Spam Reduction

[barnee]

@imperious-leader that seems a good idea. If you can’t pass the test you can ask for your registration to be reviewed. I would think it’d be easy enough to tell if it was a bot then but …

[djensen]

I’ll start by updating the forum software this weekend. I don’t think that will do it but it’s a start.

One option, which I would not like, is to require a reputation of 1 in order to post something. Then only allowing new folks to post in the “introduce yourself” thread.

[barnee]

@djensen said in Spam Reduction:

One option, which I would not like, is to require a reputation of 1 in order to post something.

yea that might end up being a necessary evil. it’s why i always try to upvote new members. Kinda my way of saying hello. That and I think you cant post links or images without a few ?

[djensen]

I enabled Stop Forum Spam. We’ll see how well it works.

[captainwalker]

@djensen apparently not very well

Moderator’s edit: removed dead link

[General 6 Stars]

Seems to be working now

edit: Scrap that

[djensen]

I’m confused. Did it work or not?

Also, are folks reporting the spam because I’m not getting any notifications about it.

[barnee]

@djensen I’m seeing 2 right now

the 37 was a bit extreme the other night/day

[General 6 Stars]

I got 2 today about 6 hours ago. Same thing barnee posted in pic

[barnee]

@general-6-stars sometimes it’s good to be popular.

Other times … not so much :grin: :grin: :grin:

[djensen]

It’s about $100 to enable Akismet for spam filtering.

I really wish NodeBB has some basic features like posting limits for new users/IP addresses. No posting links until a certain reputation and so on.

I’ll see what I get after the upgrade but it looks like there may not be any other option except Akismet.