Why would humans be spamming your forum
and how can this make money? Most forum
spammers aren’t trying to get you to buy
something, they are attempting to get higher
rankings in search engines by creating lots of
links from your pages to their own site.
Here are some suggestions on how to defeat
the spammers:
1. Make sure links in your forum are set to
‘nofollow’. This tells search engine crawlers not
to follow the links and therfore, SEO spammers
will derive no benefit from spamming your
forum.
2. Make sure registration includes a CAPTCHA.
Captcha’s are those slightly deformed images of
words and you see on sign up pages. Captcha’s
do a pretty good job of keeping out spam bots.
3. Require email confirmation before allowing
someone to post. Bots and humans can get
around this but it’s an extra bit of efforts that
most real people won’t mind.
4. Enable anti-spam plugins. These plugins can
automatically detect suspected spam based on
links, IP addresses, email addresses and the
comment itself. Keep in mind that these plugins
are not 100% effective and do sometimes
return false positives.
5. Don’t allow editing of comments after a few
minutes have passed. A frequent trick used by
spammers is to create a comment that doesn’t
look out of place (For example: “This is a great
post, very insightful.”) and then will come ba1ck
after a couple of weeks and edit the comment
to include spam links.
6. Get the whole community involved. Ask
members to help out moderators and flag
spam. In Vanilla, this can be done with the Spam
Reaction.
7. Be ruthless. Moderators and admin should
review the spam queue on a daily basis, ban
spammers and delete all their content.1
8. Only allow members that have proven
themselves and have a reputation to be allowed
to post links. In my forum it’s possible to prevent
members with a low Rank from posting links,
editing comments, etc. Ranks are earned by
accumulating reputation points or making a
certain number of posts.
9. Provide information on advertising and
partnering opportunities you might offer and
make it clear in your community guidelines
what is and what is not acceptable promotion.
This can help with accidental spammers who
are trying to legitimately sell something to your
audience. Original source http://techrom.xobor.com

Nice write up

Noted!!

Misunderstood the topic at first

Not bad , check my signature guys , you surely need it

Ok

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the guy above me sha......u dey use scopes spam

You just listed 9 ways to kill your community forum.

Look to the master and learn, if nairaland.com had done 60% of what you wrote here do you think they would be where they are today?

While fighting spam, don't inconvenience the real users.

Email confirmation each time before you post? Who does that and expect me to be posting

Don't allow editing. Some replies are not for a one sentence comment, book a space, type your article and modify
Ruthless right? We have history of ruthless Mods on nairaland since 2008 and how they ended up - dumped and forgotten. The other one that doesn't mynd his business, him time dey come.

Anti spam plug-ins : Always be on standby to treat the false positives

luk at dis op woh, what's the point of going to ur freaking forum.
Ranks?,
email confirmation?,
No follow links?, dude u think writing a great content is easy, som1 will post on ur forum & you will put "no follow"
you think I have time to be secrewing around ur forum the whole day, metchew, I advise you to avoid that crap, successful forum around the world don do dat sh*t.

Nice one!

Looks like another copy n paste article. Wehdone though..