25 October 2006 ~ 3 Comments

How to Stop Forum Spam

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Being a webmaster, and having a few websites which have forums on them, it has become apparent to me that spam is a very serious problem, with very few people knowing how to stop forum spam.

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3 Responses to “How to Stop Forum Spam”

  1. Scott 7 January 2009 at 6:11 am Permalink

    Half of these links doesn’t work. The ones that do are over 3 years old. What the hell?

    Scott

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    • Daniel 8 January 2009 at 5:28 pm Permalink

      The article is several years old. I have been slowly working on a new design for the site in which I will make posts more frequently. Thanks for your comment!

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  2. Mike 5 February 2009 at 7:18 pm Permalink

    I wanted to make you aware of a service similar to Stop Forum Spam. It’s called “BotScout.com” and they’re also useful in screening out spammers and bots that try to register on forums, abuse contact pages, etc.

    They have an easy-to-use API similar to SFS and have mods available for most of the popular bulletin boards out there.

    Full Disclosure: I’m one of the folks that runs BotScout and would be glad to have you make use of our service too.

    Mike
    BotScout.com

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