Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

If you want spam and security protection, I use something called CloudFlare it is a free service and for a load of extra features you pay about £12 ($20) if my brain converted the currency correctly.

I'ts such a wounderful application in this wounderful world


But joomla extensions would be another place to look.

katalyst wrote: I've taken the hack from here:
www.kunena.org/forum/114-user-written-ha...for-x-first-messages

and updated it to work with Kunena 1.6.3

To use it, you would edit the /components/com_kunena/lib/kunena.posting.class.php file around line 389 and add the below code. You can edit the $ks_minposts variable to however many posts you want to set as the minimum before the user is no longer moderated.

I'm open to suggestions on how to improve it. I would love to see something like that implemented in the core. I hope its useful to someone.



// Hold the post for new users
$ks_minposts = 2;
$query = "SELECT (count(*)<{$ks_minposts}) AS review FROM #__kunena_messages WHERE userid={$this->_my->id} AND hold=0";
$this->_db->setQuery ( $query );
$this->_db->query ();
$dberror = $this->checkDatabaseError ();
if ($dberror){
return $this->setError ( '-post-', JText::_ ( 'COM_KUNENA_POST_ERROR_SAVE' ) );
}
$ks_userposts = $this->_db->loadResult ();
if ($ks_userposts <= $ks_minposts) {
$this->set ( 'hold', 1 );
}

thanks for this, it worked in a way but it moderated an admin topic with 100 posts. I think there is a check missing. I'm using 1.6.5 if thats why

Hi,

Is there a way for me to delete the post of users spam, I cant find a way to do this. Also is there a program I can add on to stop spam from getting through?
Thanks,
Tonua@ Surgisnuggly.com

Tonua: please see my response to you nearly three weeks ago. You have not still not upgraded Kunena. Please upgrade to K 1.6.5. There are features built into Kunena to manage problem users.

There is a moderator module/plugin that you can get, where you moderate the first few posts from a user (you choose how many) after that they can freely post as much as they want.

I had this problem on VBulletin. Spammers where driving me crazy, until I couldn't keep up with deleting and banning them. They also passed over the captcha I activated.

But in the end I solved it!!! Question and Answer is the absolute zero spam solution.
Captcha can be read by advanced computer software or by humans employed for that.
But question and answer, mainly if your website is non-english, puts a human or non-human in the impossibility to understand and reply correctly.

So, how can I put Question and Answer on my Kunena Forum?

P.S. I noticed that if user get wrong captcha they cannot go back and reenter code, while preserving written text, in kunena. So they have to write it again, frustrating...