On 17 December 2013 23:59, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net > >wrote: > > > Le 16/12/2013 23:15, Kay Schenk a écrit : > > > > Aside from captcha (I'm assuming this is used for registration?), do we > >> have any other spam tools in place for the Forums? > >> > > > > The only other counter measure is the first post moderation. > > And it is very effective. On the English board, there is absolutely no > > spam. The only remaining is the signature or the profile link but they > are > > spotted very quickly and they don't appear until you look at the members > > list. > > > > So I don't think we need further tools. > > Except for moderators perhaps, something like a nuke button that bans the > > user and delete signature and profile web link automatically. But we live > > without. The rate (on the EN forum) is below 3.5 spam account per day. > > > > Hagar > > > OK, thanks. The reason why I asked is I saw that there ARE spam mods > available for phpBB and, not knowing our setup, I didn't know if we were > using any of them, or if they would help. > there are, but not a lot is configured. However if the en forum is happy and have a low spam level, then there are no need to hazzle users more.
> > Like anything of that nature, they might help if configured appropriately. > +1 > > One even claims to "do" moderation. But, of course, some attention would > likely be necessary. > > In this particular case, we might think about closing the "vi" forum and > deleting all accounts of a certain age if these seem to be the cause of > problems, then reopening again with only newer accounts available and see > what happens. > +1, thats a real good idea, there would be no need to close the forum, simply clean the user base older than e.g. 3 month and see if the spam continues. rgds jan I. > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, > for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." > -- James Mason >
