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Gus
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Post by Gus »

We do seem to be getting quite a lot of spam/junk postings just recently! thanks Mods for clearing it up promptly, it is appreciated.
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anchorman
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Post by anchorman »

Aye, sad creatures that live in some darkened room with no life Gus. There must be some automation because they were piling on as fast as I was deleting them at lunch time and then Jules has cleared a raft of them this after.
Jules knows more about what needs to be done.
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The majority of spam attacks on forums are automated by computer programs (bots). Once they find a way in, they will keep registering new usernames and generate spam topics & posts.

The bots know these forums are powered by phpBB forum software, and know how the registration and posting process works. If they can publish their spammy links in posts, those links then get indexed by the search engines (friendly bots) that also crawl these forums and that benefits the spammers.

The spam countermeasures implemented on these forums are obviously not working too well. Alternatives or additional modifications would need to be researched and implemented by the administrator to see if they have the desired effect.

There are over 850 posts discussing the subject Preventing spam in phpBB3 on the phpBB community support forums.
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Post by Rob »

I've just signed up and implemented https://cleantalk.org/ on the forums, fingers crossed it helps stop some of the problems.
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Thanks Rob. Fingers crossed.
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