Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

I have an antispam plugin that now supports Kunena. It does this without using Captcha, but utilises several different online antispam sources. It is listed in JED, and available from www.cedit.biz/joomla-extensions/18-regis...able-email-addresses

v2 now has native Kunena support, and will prevent spam postings using checks against Linksleeve and Akismet.

@purplepomegranite
I have seen that plugin too, but have not tried it myself yet.
Do you know if it is possible to turn it off for logged in users?

Sorry, for some reason wasn't notified of reply.

RV only acts on the registration page usually, so will not affect any users that are logged in. Basically, RV does background checks at registration to ensure that it isn't a known spam source (or disposable email address). This blocks around 95% of spammers/bots.

The only exception to this are the Kunena post checks. As you have to be logged in to post, they can only be effective when the user is logged in! The posting is sent to Linksleeve and/or Akismet, and the result checked. If either reports the posting as spam, it is ignored (or the user redirected to a warning page, depending upon plugin configuration).

Incidentally, RV2 (which has Kunena support) is usually only available on subscription (sorry - I am a sole developer and it has taken a lot of my time - version 1 is not subscription).

However, I'll be more than happy to give the Kunena developers a permanent subscription as a thanks for the great work.

Hi this, is not a hack or feature request, as i am going to pay one of my amazing guys to do this, as it is driving me barking mad!!!!

This is what i have just sent him, can you think of anything else that would be needed or to improve this idea?

I have a few clients with kunena forums

You can see when your logged in, on the profile page is list of users posts and profile.

What I would like is to have a buttons besides each of the posts when logged in as a superadmin that allows you to delete each post, also a button that allows you to block the users account in Joomla.

What the clients are doing at the moment with spam attacks, is viewing all posts by the specific user, then deleting each one, one by one, and then going into the admin user manager, and blocking the user (not deleting them), so they can’t sign up again with the same email.

So a simple way to do this, would make life hugely easier.

If we could make it change one file in the system, and maybe then add another file with the extra code if needed, to make it as simple as possible to intergrate with just a 2 file hack that would be amazing. I will also post this on their forums, so anybody else can use this as well, to help others with the same problems.

Just let me know a price and time scale

Do you have any other ideas or suggestions before the work starts?

What I would like is to have a buttons besides each of the posts when logged in as a superadmin that allows you to delete each post, also a button that allows you to block the users account in Joomla.

Hello,

on each message you have a button to delete the message, or you have checkbox with a drop down menu in recent discussions and in some others place, to delete multiple threads in the same time.

Where do you want a button to block the user ? in fronted/backend and in which place ?