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- Oct 28, 2013
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Hey guys, I mentioned this in the spam forum, but I thought I should formally suggest it.
http://www.stopforumspam.com/faq
Stop Forum Spam is an online community that has created and maintains a list of the account details of forum spam bots and other abusers. I personally have used this to manually check if new members of the Outpost Universe community forums were spammers. It drastically decreased the amount of trash that ended up on the forum, but could have been more effective if I had had access to the proper files to implement the automatic checking.
I am recommending that we utilize this tool because, as a community, minr is growing in size. As a result of this growth, we have already had a few cases of advertising spam. Trust me when I tell you that this will only become a bigger problem as the forum activity increases.
There are a few addons people have made for forums to allow them to auto-check here: http://www.stopforumspam.com/contributions
However, I do not know if the XenoForo system is compatible with these. If it is not, c_dric (as the site owner) would need to register to their forums in order to get access to the API key and learn how to incorporate it into the system.
http://www.stopforumspam.com/faq
Stop Forum Spam is an online community that has created and maintains a list of the account details of forum spam bots and other abusers. I personally have used this to manually check if new members of the Outpost Universe community forums were spammers. It drastically decreased the amount of trash that ended up on the forum, but could have been more effective if I had had access to the proper files to implement the automatic checking.
I am recommending that we utilize this tool because, as a community, minr is growing in size. As a result of this growth, we have already had a few cases of advertising spam. Trust me when I tell you that this will only become a bigger problem as the forum activity increases.
There are a few addons people have made for forums to allow them to auto-check here: http://www.stopforumspam.com/contributions
However, I do not know if the XenoForo system is compatible with these. If it is not, c_dric (as the site owner) would need to register to their forums in order to get access to the API key and learn how to incorporate it into the system.