Re: Lots of spam via the Nabble private message system....

Posted by augidog on Oct 06, 2016; 4:25pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Lots-of-spam-via-the-Nabble-private-message-system-tp7597381p7597397.html

Joe, I use a free non-intrusive tracker called statcounter. it lets me watch a visitors path. when I get a new member notification, I watch their path to see if they start visiting our members profile pages but never post, then I check with my members to see if they've gotten new spam. if yes, I ban the culprit. this has turned out to be effective as in "better than nothing." look at my main page source code to see where I put the statcounter snippet, then go to statcounter.com and setup your own account. I am not affiliated with statcounter.

also, I have set my permissions so that new registrations can only post in one forum, and only after I've screened them do I add them to a new group that can roam the messageboard at will.

hope this is helpful.