Month: February 2011

Cunning way to thwart spammers…

I wrote the other day about the level of spam I was having on my forum. I did a little playing about and all seemed to calm down. In fact the forum got very quiet indeed. It was quite pleasant not having to worry about it.

Anyway, today I got a little suspicious as I had no posts at all. I tried to write a post myself and got a server error. It seems the last switch I flicked on the control panel tried to do something my hosting provider doesn’t allow and blocked all posts.

So my cunning plan turned out to be not so cunning afterall… 🙁

Let’s see if the deluge starts again…

Cheers

Tim…

Pr0n Attack…

It seems my forum has become subject to an onslaught of pr0n spam. Sorry if anyone has got an eyeful. I’m trying to delete it as soon as it arrives, but I can’t be on the forum every minute of the day.

If anyone has any tips regarding anti-spam on phpBB I would be happy to hear them. I’m currently using reCAPTCHA, but am looking at other mods to see what else I can do to prevent it.

Cheers

Tim…