Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!

[Cato]

Verifying email should be a minium. If the problem still occurs, maybe using CAPTCHA for every post? It’s just one extra click…

[Cato]

Over 120 SPAM posts today! Please do something…

[yawns]

@Cato said in Alot of SPAM lately on this forum!:

Over 120 SPAM posts today! Please do something…

In fact it was more than 200, and I deleted most of them on my smartphone after waking up. We are discussing possible steps internally

[Mykle1]

I was here last night for the onslaught. It was horrible. I was fully armed and wanted to nuke the bastards! :-)

[cowboysdude]

Don’t they have a captcha system?

[d3r]

It’s seems to be getting worse. I just signed in and I see about 20 of them in recent posts. Can something be done?
Maybe prevent posts with Chinese characters from being instantly posted since most of the spam are not in English.

[d3r]

Or make new posters go through a 5 post vetting process where their posts would need to be reviewed before being made public.
Not sure how the logistics would work since the mods would still need to review a lot of posts.

[Cato]

Moderation is probably too much work and makes the forum less instant.

I wouldn’t mind to click a CAPTCHA every time I post something. But I guess the problem is support for such feature on the forum software…?

[rudibarani]

I would suggest to force a captacha for the first XX number of posts of a user. Once the user seems credible, you can most certainly leave it out for this person.

[cowboysdude]

Not too sure either but it needed to be addressed after the 1st time it happened.

THIS has been a problem for others running NodeBB. Here’s an answer:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/3036/spam-control-options/2