Have you ever got spam posts on your forum. Surely yes. Deleting members will not help. One effective way is to block IP, especially if your forum is intended for local people. When an IP or hostname is banned, your board’s content will be blocked from any connection coming from that IP. If you are using phpbb, you can by IP to ban in your administrator. Simply enter the IP address or hostname to ban and Save. To specify multiple IPs, you may separate the multiple entries with commas (,). For instance, to ban the IP 193.53.87.95, and 193.53.87.93 you would enter 193.53.87.95, 193.53.87.93.
To ban a range of IPs, use -(hyphen) (e.g. 193.53.87.95-124). I prefer using the wildcard *(asterisk). It will match any characters, so to ban all IPs that begin with 193.53, use 193.53.*.*
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Hi, thanks for the article. It’s a real shame that the Internet is drowning in spammers. I guess it’s just a side effect of having such a global medium. Still, knowing how to get rid of at least some of them is useful!
Thank you!
I remember running an IPB forum a while back. Left it dormant (waiting for the right time to launch) then came back to find it filled with spams of all sorts.
I think blocking all IP ranges outside your local one would not be all that effective really. Especially as many mobile IPS and IP addresses such as AOL and many other dialup IP ranges would then get caught.
Good word verification defeats automated scripts so I would stick with this and delete the few that come through.
Well said article. Yes, I agree to blocked the IP than to delete user.
Genuine Idea Author!
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