Howto: How to Stop PhpBB Spam
One of my sites contains a forum and I use PhpBB as the forum software.
For the past 3 months I’ve had to delete lots of spam posts every day. I tried a few ‘plugins’ gathered from the PhpBB forums but they didn’t seem to do the trick.
Anyway, when upgrading to the latest version of PhpBB I went looking for a ‘no spam’ solution and discovered Anti-Spam ACP from Lithium Studios.
It includes better captcha on registration, allows you to take away certain fields and allows you to ‘only allow urls/website’ etc. on a certain number of posts. (It does more than this… check the readme)
It works a treat… no spam whatsoever and it’s simple to use (I’m no Php coder… I use ASP)
To download it and for help with it visit Anti-Spam ACP on the Lithium Studios forum.
For my upcoming social networking website I've built a custom forum and I'll be replacing the PhpBB forum with my own once I think it's ready and tested.
One of my sites contains a forum and I use PhpBB as the forum software.
For the past 3 months I’ve had to delete lots of spam posts every day. I tried a few ‘plugins’ gathered from the PhpBB forums but they didn’t seem to do the trick.
Anyway, when upgrading to the latest version of PhpBB I went looking for a ‘no spam’ solution and discovered Anti-Spam ACP from Lithium Studios.
It includes better captcha on registration, allows you to take away certain fields and allows you to ‘only allow urls/website’ etc. on a certain number of posts. (It does more than this… check the readme)
It works a treat… no spam whatsoever and it’s simple to use (I’m no Php coder… I use ASP)
To download it and for help with it visit Anti-Spam ACP on the Lithium Studios forum.
For my upcoming social networking website I've built a custom forum and I'll be replacing the PhpBB forum with my own once I think it's ready and tested.
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Phpbb and spam are like peanut butter and jelly.
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 am
eww, come on! Peanut butter and jelly do NOT mix…
March 10th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
It would be great if there was an equivalent(or extension) of Akismet for forums.
March 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Not one spam post has made it through yet so it would seem the problem has been cured thanks to Anti-Spam ACP.
March 15th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Definitive Guide to phpBB Spam Control >
http://russell.ekushey.com/journal/index.php?itemid=93
Try it out!
August 10th, 2007 at 9:03 am
I've been using Anti Bot Question (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=383305
with some custom words and it's done wonders. Thankfully my vbulletin forums are safe from spam, one interesting open source forum SW is http://getvanilla.com/
BeckyS
August 11th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Vanilla looks interesting, thanks for the link Paul, err.. I mean Becky
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I use the spam protection from http://www.xmonitor.net, which works fine.
September 27th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I employed this technique a few days ago after reading your article Zigire. I must say that my ads are now pertinent to my content.
Thanks again,
Steve.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
You may notice that I have commented on the wrong article. I intended to comment on http://www.zigire.net/2007/08/16/increase-adsense-ctr-cpm-section-targeting/
oh well, you get the picture.
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January 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I did not use phpbb - I use their product and do not have such problems)