Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

Where would I ask this question? I can not find any forum for Joomla1.6

Thank you Sozzled for the extensive reply. I very much appreciate you spending the time to give such a long and concise answer to my questions.

Maybe you could create a post of some of the tools you at Kunena use, besides live people in the forums. I have tried blocking IPs and entire countries from my website completely using .htaccess files. (and as stated, they must be registered, email confirmed until they can post). They keep coming back and use proxy servers, I assume. I have people that use the same tactics but the IPs come from China, Chicago, Germany, France, etc... (all over)

Once again, thank you so much for the time you took in your reply, very much appreciated!
(BTW - Kunena is the ONLY and BEST Joomla Forum in my opinion!) I have other sites running Kunena with no issues, this one site as Sozzled had said is just a more "high profile" site about paranormal stuff, so of course it is being hit up due to the popularity of that topic.

Thanks!

If this has been asked before, I can't find it.

I have a few "trouble" users that I would like to set as requiring approval for all of their posts. Most of my forums do not require moderator approval and I want to leave them open, I just want to control those few users who are constant trouble but who haven't quite reached banned status yet. This is a feature available in Yahoo groups that is SUPER helpful.

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Yes, this question has been asked before (see msg #4 in this topic) and it's a good idea that has not yet been implemented in Kunena.

I often get spammers who deliberately join the forum just to advertise on our forum. We normally jump on them pretty quickly, ban them and remove the content.I want to put something along the lines of "attention spammers, your material will be removed quickly if you spam our forum" on the signup page.

They don't read it anyway, so why to bother?