I am getting flooded with useless users who are posting nonsense on my messageboard. Is there any way I can moderate users before they can post on my board - I'm getting sick of deleting users everyday and not being able to stop spam posts before they are listed...any help would be great - here is my board site:
Canadian Lures Messageboard

4uvak91: xillibit asked you some specific questions: Do you have a shared or dedicated hosting plan, with SSH access? He also suggested that, if you cannot change directory permissions yourself, maybe you could ask your webhost to do this for you.

You were not asked to provide what effectively amounts to an advertisement for your webhost. Your message above was reported to me by another user because it appeared to them to be unsolicited advertising, in other words, spam. Please try to be careful in future and answer the questions that we ask, not expect us to read some advertising blurb that may (or may not) contain any relevant information. If you don't know the answers about what your webhosting service provider offers then it's your responsibility, not ours, to find out.

The site administrators and the moderation team do not endorse any webhost service providers and we do not permit advertising of webhosting services or any other services or products unrelated to Kunena.

I also need very much to have this added as a standard feature. Like others have stated, I have members register and then post SPAM. I'd like to have control over this to have the first x many forum messages be moderated.

Kunena is an awesome forum for Joomla and I truly love it. But I feel it lacks in some of the SPAM controls. We need these tools to better protect our members from SPAM.

Please add this functionality.

JT

Is there an update on if this functionality is being considered?

JT

rich wrote:

Es wurde ausführlich getestet und es hat immer geklappt.

Immer auf dem gleichen Server? Wurden versch. Serverumgebungen getestet?

Es ist definitiv auch nichts in die Spam Ordner gegangen.

Wir haben es gestern abend mit versch. Threads getestet. Kein Admin oder Moderator hat eine E-Mail bekommen.

Einstellungen für den E-Mail Versand stehen alle auf JA. Moderatoren sind in den jeweiligen Kategorien gesetzt und freigeschaltet.

Die gleichen Einstellungen funktionieren bei den Versionen unter 1.5.9.

Somit können Serverprobleme ausgeschlossen werden auser es hat sich was Grundlegendes am Code für den E-Mail Versand von Kunena geändert. (was ich aber auf Anhieb nicht gesehen habe)

MfG

Coming back to this very old thread, I just wondered if Kunena 1.6 has a feature like this? I don't want to spend my time moderating every single post, but I need to be able to approve the first few posts of a new user to assure they are a legitimate use and not just posting spurious amounts of spam.

Cheers,

Phil

One of the first questions I asked after I joined www.kunena.com was Does the "spam protection system" work in Kunena? Read that and you will understand how the CAPTCHA system works.

First off, this is a Joomla problem (registration is handled by Joomla), not Kunena.

Second, there is several components and/modules which can help you out.
You could, for example, this combination: recaptcha at registration, automatic cleaning of non-activated profiles, some kind of botblock (registration validator?).
Its all in the JED.

Try have a look here:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...urity/authentication
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/communi...ware/user-management
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/captcha

I have had my forum up for about a month and now getting what look like spam (possibly automatic) registrations, They do not look like real email addreses and some are very similar but with one character different in each. They never leave any message on the forum. (What does the robot gain from doing this?). How do I stop this? I noticed when I registered on this forum there was a second form to fill out, would this stop it and if so how do I add that to the forum I have.

www.shrivenham100.com

Please help as it seems to getting worse.

Thanks

G'day, ericadi, and welcome to the forum. Just one small tip that I'd like to pass on to you (and to other new members of this site) before we get started:

The

Support category, where you posted your question, is intended to be used to address problems with the unmodified core Kunena software - not to ask how to change it - or to report defects that you are encountering - not to ask questions about how to use the software normally. We give these support topics higher priority than other topics, particularly around the time when there is a new release of Kunena (as there was only a couple of days ago), in order to ensure that defects are not passed on to other users. I have moved your topic to a more appropriate section.I am not quite sure I understand your question. I have not seen a "spam report" as you refer to it. Perhaps you are referring to the "Report to moderator" function? Is that what you mean?

If you mean, "can I control which moderators receive reports from users about problem messages posted in the forum", then if you have enabled the Email Moderators and Email Administrators settings, all Moderators and/or Administrators will receive Kunena-generated mail. Although I have not experimented with the function (that I think you may be referring to) I believe this would be where you would control those things.

We recently relaunched our website and updated our forum. We've since had a few spammers. Currently, there are about 6 or so people receiving spam report emails when a user reports the post as spam. I'd like to limit who receives those emails. Is there a way I can do this? Thanks in advance for your help.