Getting rid of the (increasing) spam

[KarenRei]

I'm sure we've noticed the increasing amount of spam on this website. A few suggestions to help:

1) Captchas: For anyone who's not familiar with them, these are the graphical version of text that pop up on some websites that you have to type into a blank in order to continue. These should, bare minimum, be part of new account registration. In an extreme case, they can be required for every post. More moderate alternatives include having a user's first ten or twenty posts have captchas, or having the admins "whitelist" users who've been taking part in the discussion so that they no longer need to enter Captchas.

2) Spam blacklist: You can get a good one from the MediaWiki site. It's just a list of IPs that you permanently ban.

I run several wikis, and the combination of these two has proven extremely useful.

[Matthijs]

Hi,

I have sent a pm to the admin. With my rights to the forum I can only ban users 1 @ the time. So it would take me forever to process a whole list. :)

I found a site with some a good spamlist http://www.stopforumspam.com/

I think when we implement these antispam features we will have a cleaner forum quickly.

[RoxChkPlusOny]

Thank you! For the first time I've seen, there was an unwanted post in an existing thread (most of them had created their own threads and were therefore pretty easily avoided). I check this forum at work, so that was for a split-second pretty tragic.