how to stop forum spam

[BobCat]

When you ban a spammer, grab the IP address and put it in the ban list as well.

Also, there are websites out there with their own lists of IP addresses which can be used to stop forum spammers.

www.stopforumspam.com
spam-ip.com/how-to-block-forum-spam.php


Block *.info and *.biz in e-mail addresses.

[BobCat]

An API that can be installed (Style can take care of this) which blocks spammers.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mod...x.php?mod=1519

[BobCat]

Bump. We definitely need this as current staff has gotten lazier than Ryo Misaki at fighting spam

[Style]

We have that api installed but for vbulletin Spammers are getting smarter my friend.