Sticky How to protect my forum from spam

That is not correct, WeedRoy. You can enable CAPTCHA for registered users too (in other words, you can have Forum Configuration » Security » Security Settings » Allow Guests to Post/Write = No).

Please start a new topic in the Common Questions category called "K 1.7.1: How to setup CAPTCHA for registered users" and I will give you (and anyone else who wants to know) the answer.

naimless wrote: Hi, I didn't want to raise the whole Captcha debate again ...

... except that you have raised it again. Please read Using CAPTCHA spam protection in Kunena

naimless wrote: I have upgraded to the new Kunena and enabled Recaptcha ... [but] since then I have been absolutely inundated by anonymous comment spam ...

The whole issue about spam on a forum is just that: an issue about how spam gets on your forum, any forum, even on forums that don't use Kunena.

A couple of years ago this discussion was started: How to protect my forum from spam? In this discussion everyone has sought to find the "silver bullet" solution with suggestions ranging from the absurd (e.g. sacrifice a few virgins to appease the pagan gods) to some other that are a little more reasonable. But the simple fact is that no-one - let me repeat that for everyone to hear - no-one has found a mechanism to completely eradicate spam from their forums.

I wrote (and you can quote me):

"The only truly effective remedy against spam is vigilance."

So, rather than re-opening the whole "the great CAPTCHA [non-]problem discussion" (and have it continue for another year) let's look at the real cause of the problem.

The real cause of the problem is that people are posting rubbish on your website and the real problem is how to discourage that. Unfortunately the options are somewhat limited but I am, nonetheless, willing to discuss these options in general terms. As far as your specific question is concerned - "Is reCAPTCHA actually working?" - that's a question you should address to the developers of reCAPTCHA.

As far as the incidence of spam on your website is concerned, you need to look at the causes of how spam messages are being created in the first place and, for that reason only, I've merged this topic with the even bigger one How to protect my forum from spam?

G'day, gerald_k, and welcome to Kunena.

Kunena does not have any IP ban feature but there are many other ways to do that. You can, for example, ban IP addresses with Joomla components like Joomlawatch, via .htaccess or even with cPanel. The trouble with trying to ban IP addresses is, as we all know, not reliable because real spammers will simply change their IP base and try again if they're that intent on attacking your particular website.

The Kunena Ban User feature deletes multiple posts in one place. Therefore I think the answer to your question "[How can I] easily delete multiple posts from one user?" is, yes, you can.

sozzled wrote: That is not correct, WeedRoy. You can enable CAPTCHA for registered users too (in other words, you can have Forum Configuration » Security » Security Settings » Allow Guests to Post/Write = No).

Please start a new topic in the Common Questions category called "K 1.7.1: How to setup CAPTCHA for registered users" and I will give you (and anyone else who wants to know) the answer.

I do not know English so many, well, pls give me a direct link for that....
or tell me how can i do that...
tnx

WeedRoy: It's up to you to start a new topic in the Common Questions category - create this topic with the subject "K 1.7.1: How to setup CAPTCHA for registered users" - and I will answer your question there. This topic - How to protect my forum from spam - is a general discussion about how to prevent (or lessen the incidence of) spam for any web-based forum. It is not appropriate to discuss here how to use standard features of K 1.7.1. Do you understand?

ok tnx, i understand now...

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