Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

Yes this spamming problem seem to increase and i hope the Kunena team will be able to add some feature that helps in that regards.

I like the idea of being able to moderate the first X amount of post of a new user.

I also have a lot of spam that comes to my forum, and i'm a bit tired to monitor closely and disable users. It's such a waste of time and counter productive.

The major problem that we see now, is that spams are no longer ONLY posted by bots. Since internet is now reaching very poor part of the world, you have people paid for doing so.
I know it can sound crazy right? how much can you be paid to do that? but think about people in some part of the world are making a few dollars a month. So getting paid to sit your ass and spam forum and site is probably attractive for them.

This is why even captcha system are starting to be no longer enough.

Welcome to globalization!

I am a newbie to Kunena.
I have just got my new forum up and running, but for one night I have already 300 spammers registreded on the forum.
How can I avoid this.
Is it possible to have some kind of extra security.
Br
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We moved our site from Wordpress to Joomla with JomSocial and Kunena.

After that, we get a lot fo spam - several spam/porn/pills post every day now. :pinch:

What is the best way to manage this ?

It would be really nice to have the first post from new users kept for moderation so that they would not be able to post before having at least one good post.

Definitely not a Kunena expert (installed it today), but generally if you have a web developer who could make some adjustments to the forum registration process (registration page), you could ask them to:

1. add some non-standard mandatory field to the registration page that has to be filled in (random question etc., which should be enough to confuse the spam bot and reject it at the doorstep)
2. delay the timer for your forum account activation prompt e-mail response (anything that is different from immediate response should work here)
3. disable the option to place any do follow links at the registration process (that is in user signature etc.)

I suppose that these are not "out of the box" solutions for this extension, but if you know a knowledgeable person, they should be able to implement them. Other than that (but this would also need some help from a programmer when it comes to implementation) subscribing to spam blacklists and blocking IPs that are on those lists from access to your website should be of some help here too.

klp29 wrote: It would be really nice to have the first post from new users kept for moderation so that they would not be able to post before having at least one good post.

That's a very good idea. Maybe we should consider this as a feature inclusion for a future version of Kunena?