Quote:
Originally Posted by 2muchmark2
We setup vBulletin for a client about 4 months ago and he never bothered to pay any attention to it. Recently I checked it out and it had something like 100,000 posts in it, all spam.
The best thing to do is to take advantage of ALL of vbulletin's anti-spam features especially Captcha and email verification for new accounts. Turn off PM for new users too.
|
Mark, the market for captcha fillers is down to something like less than $1 US per thousand captchas. The spammers that pack a board full of spam aren't stopped by captcha. That only keeps the kiddies out.
Doing things like not permitting gmail / hotmail / yahoo mail email addresses, requiring confirmation before activating the account, and then requiring an admin to approve the account keeps them out entirely. It is more work, but it will keep the board clean.