Comments on: Combating vBulletin Forum Post and PM Spam

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:50:13 +0000

Is there any way I can do this but allow a registered member to PM admins ONLY?

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:45:32 +0000

@AWS – Thanks a lot of that last explanation. I had already considered this now when my PM spam has increased, but was afraid I’d have to move over thousands of users manually.

By: AWS

AWS — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:04:02 +0000

Yes. As soon as you set up the new usergroup and create the promotion users will be moved into the new group usually within an hour.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:24:30 +0000

What do you do if you are implementing this with 2000 users already in the registered user group?

Does the promotion system allow for this and automatically detect the current scenarios for the current users?

By: David

David — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:04:56 +0000

I’ve read a lot on digital point forums and disabled and enabled this and that, it helped for a while, but then another wave came around like they found another way to register. I’ve been testing the fassim.com anit spam plugin and it has cut a of the registrations down a lot, i like the post mod feature too. Just another one to add to the tool belt. david

By: Spammers Suck

Spammers Suck — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:02:21 +0000

@seoblogcentral01, you’ve got a lot of balls to post your spam here, too, on a topic about spammers. I’ve seen your posts on several other forums now and you suck.

Go away.

By: seoblogcentral01

seoblogcentral01 — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:08:33 +0000

Friends,
The vBulletin Anti-Spam system can be effective in identifying and deleting spam.vBulletin 3.7 hack to prevent simply and easily remove such PM spam. Forum spamming can be a real problem, but luckily there’s a great mod for vbulletin.

Thanks,

By: hentry

hentry — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:35:06 +0000

Great informations

By: raul2010

raul2010 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:31:33 +0000

But the “Allow Link BBCode” option is in the “Signature Permissions” sections so it only applies to signatures. Disallowing those won’t avoid spammers to post links in posts, right?

By: AWS

AWS — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:35:53 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Most spammers will not only spam your forum, but, will spam your members PM box.