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haphuonghoai
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 11 April 2007 : 10:39:41
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How to Bloc Unwanted Advertisements related to Sex and Drugs
My forum is created for educational purpose and it is frequently used by elementary and high school students but now there are a lot of unwanted ads continuously posted. I have applied the Bad Words Option but still cannot prevent them from posting
Please help me the way to BLOC THEM
thanks
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2007 : 11:31:32
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You will need to control your registration process, by adding email verification and member approval. Once that happens, you will need to approve every single member application, but it will give you control over who gets to access your board. You will then be able to reject the obvious applications performed by scripts (they are very easy to detect from the members pending page).
There are also mods in the board that will stop the scripts from registering, even without the need to approve all registrations.
Once you do that, not automated posts will occur. |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 11 April 2007 : 11:37:10
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Stupid network issues... I'd have had this posted a few minutes ago.... anyway, like Rui said:
Since most of the spam bots use invalid e-mail addresses (or ones other than their own), turning on "E-Mail Validation" will help catch a large chunk of them. All the ones that try to register for my church site get caught in it, leaving me to clean out the pending members list periodically (we've been getting about 20 or more each week).
Also, you can require additional fields since most of the bots are set to fill in the minimum required fields - Shaggy wrote a how-to on making the Birthday required, and JJenson wrote a MOD that will let you pick and choose which fields you want to require. This, coupled with e-mail validation will normally keep the bulk of them out.
There are more elaborate ways to build on this, like adding a CAPTCHA - there's a MOD or two out for this already - or adding something like a Gatekeeper question - there's a MOD for this too. With these you start getting some drawbacks (see the related threads) and you need to start weighing the cost/benefit.
This is a frequently recurring topic, so some quality time with the search feature will bring out the details and other options.  |
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haphuonghoai
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 11 April 2007 : 11:48:44
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A million thanks to AnonJr and Rurib these info are very helpful. I will try
hph
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