Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

Yes it is.

I also saw this thread, which could help admins on the same quest:
www.kunena.com/forum/119-feature-request...g-able-to-post-links

Sozzled, I registered then tried submitting to UserVoice but didn't see an option for posting a suggestion. Anyway, Mr. VMax, I mean fxstein said that he's adding this to his list.

I'm really glad about this because each morning, I have to go in to my forum to clean up a bunch of undesirable posts that discredit my website.

It is as someone earlier said: this feature only works if you are not logged in. The assumption, I guess, is that if you are a registered user then you can't spam.

At any rate, the offending line is currently in /components/com_kunena/template/default/fb_write.html.php on line 270. It says:

if ($fbConfig->captcha == 1 && $kunena_my->id < 1) ?>

It can be changed to:

if ($fbConfig->captcha == 1) { ?>

Then to make sure that ths code is checked, you need to change line 62 of /components/com_kunena/template/default/post.php from:

if ($fbConfig->captcha== 1 && $kunena_my->id < 1) {

to:

if ($fbConfig->captcha== 1) {

Standard warnings apply: this would be a hack and would be overwritten when you upgrade Kunena.

Kunena Developers: Ideally the config option would be changed to a three-value list:
0=Never use Captch
1=Use Captcha when users are not logged in
2=Always use Captcha

It's always a dangerous thing resurrecting a discussion topic that began 9 months ago but which dried up 3 months ago. :laugh: A lot has happened. :blush:

See also Replace captcha with reCaptcha for some more up-to-date views on this subject.

Well, that's what I get I guess. I often use advice I find on message boards but never contribute. I finally contributed, and I should have kept my mouth shut.

Of course, the version that I am using that doesn't have a working Captcha feature in it was downloaded only about 2 weeks ago and the post you mentioned was only 3 days old, so the "lot" that has happened has not changed this, yet. And will using reCaptcha change the way the config works?

A lot has changed. The topic I referred to (that's 3 days old) is only the latest in a long list of topics about CAPTCHA and Kunena and spam protection. I should also have added a thank-you for taking the trouble to investigate the inner workings of Kunena and I apologise for my flippancy. Even so, it's still a dangerous thing to take an old issue like this - (I was a novice when I posted my original question 9 months ago :blush:) - and try to make it relevant today. In the past 9 months, there have been 11 public releases of Kunena ... so a lot has happened!

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