Oregon Brain Preservation

I just disabled registration of new users for a while. Too many spammers, and I won't be available to watch it closely this week. In a few weeks, I'll try to come up with a better anti-spam strategy and then turn it back on. Existing users can still make posts.

New account approval works very well for me on my forum. There are addons I use that show the IP type (VPN, etc.), and let you know if their IP, email, or username has been banned for spam on other forums. If you pair that with checking for "temp email addresses" or email addresses from certain sources (mailknox), that has effectively prevented all spam on my forum.

There is also the option to freely allow registration, but require that new accounts' first posts be manually approved. That would also work.

My forum uses different software than yours so I'm not sure if all the same features are available.

Please do something about the spam. I have 20 new spam notifications from the past week.

Stopping registration completely is not a good tactic. The tactics I listed in my last comment work better.

Sorry about the spam. Working on a permanent fix.

The main new countermeasure is that all new user posts will require approval. If I have to waste too much time deleting those, then I might just require new users to call the office to get added.

Well, we had a few spam posts sneak through. Still not sure how. Any new user is supposed to require post approval, so I'll keep going through the settings to see if I missed something.

jordansparks wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:12 pm Well, we had a few spam posts sneak through. Still not sure how. Any new user is supposed to require post approval, so I'll keep going through the settings to see if I missed something.

I don't think any of them made it into my email notifications. Perhaps you are the only one who got notified since you're the admin.

Hey, that's a good idea. If another one shows up, I'll browse anonymously to see if other people can see it.

The new moderation setting has been working to keep the spam away. But I still need to turn it down a little. If you make a post, I think it will need to go through moderation before it goes live. I'll try to be on the lookout for legit posts to let through, but it won't be immediate.