More PHPBB help

joyride · Post by **joyride** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:31 pm

I am running my student organizations web page that includes a forum on it similar to this one. It has been running smoothly until lately. I seem to be getting a lot of spam on there, and it is getting irritating. Is there any way to reduce the people registering and posting?

Post by **Bfowler** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:41 pm

Welcome to the board.

Stipud is the go to guy on that one.

gridracer · Post by **gridracer** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:42 pm

should be able to have an image verification enabled to stop spammer bots

dedlyjedly · Post by **dedlyjedly** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:56 pm

Welcome to the Phorum. Unfortunately not nearly as many of us are familiar with the php coding as we are car audio. As Bfowler mentioned, Stipud would be your man for that. Hopefully you stick around for the audio and other discussions too.

Post by **Francious70** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:02 pm

Damnit, people changing their names

Just kidding mang, good to see ya over here. As everyone else had said, Tom's the go-to guy for phpBB stuff.

Post by **VW337** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:42 pm

Welcome to the Phorum.

Post by **bdubs767** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:47 pm

welcome stipud is the one to know

Post by **stipud** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:24 pm

Administration Panel
General Admin
Configuration
Enable account activation -> User (if damn near nobody joins, set it to admin, which lets you pick and choose who gets to join, rather than them simply having to click an email for validation)
Enable Visual Confirmation -> Yes

If there are any problems after that, check out the PHPBB forum for a "better captcha" mod (there are many), and other various anti-spambot mods.

Here's an example of a mod you need:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=382890

I would also download and set up "Easymod" to make installing mods much easier (still a few tweaks if you run different themes than the standard one, but these minor edits beat installing stuff yourself).
http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?sid=&f=15

joyride · Post by **joyride** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:47 pm

thanks tom...And yes, I did change my name. I've been here for a while, just havent posted anything. But thanks for the welcome

Post by **stipud** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:09 pm

I just installed this captcha: http://www.phpbb.com/styles/forum/viewt ... p?t=473222
We'll see how it works. I've already had three spambots registered so far (only one of them that validated the email correctly). Hopefully this will keep it at 0 for awhile. If I find any more, I will look at a more drastic change.

No more Integra? What are you driving now?

joyride · Post by **joyride** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:05 am

I've had an 01 Impala for several years now. The Integ was gon in the days of the old PG forum, I just never switched my name when going to SB.