David Gerard wrote: > Asking people with phpBB experience, the main things you need are: > > 1. captcha or similar for account registrations > 2. moderate all registrations that make it past that > 3. mods who like phpBB forums and catch and block as needed the people > who make it past that. > > Some moderation on the gateway to the list would be useful as well. > > I use Akismet on my WordPress blog and it's fantastic. There's a phpBB port: > > http://www.eadz.co.nz/blog/article/phpbb-akismet.html > > - though I know that a lot of wine-users posts get caught by my > various spam filters (presumably because there's so much spam for > warez copies of Windows programs), so I'd review and train it > carefully. > > Various other ideas: > > http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=57141 > http://boonedocks.net/mike/archives/49-PHPBB-Member-List-Link-Spam.html > http://boonedocks.net/mike/categories/9-PHPBB > http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=427852 > > (I am not volunteering as a mod myself!) > > > - d. Might be worthy of a topic-split, and sorry to respond so late, but captcha is garbage IMHO. It filters out people who have a hard time seeing and frustrates 10x the amount of people that it actually filters. And its not like computerized text recognition is a thing of the future. What I've been impressed with is settable questions that make you prove you are human, like "what is this a picture of?" and show a wine bottle. Or make people solve a word puzzle. Heck, it might make registering for accounts fun instead of a PITA. Unfortunately, the world enjoys scrambling letters into unreadable checkered psychedelic images. -Tres [Twisted Evil]
