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I'm in very big trouble now. Last week, a user registered on my forum and posted an advertising thread in a inappropriate forum. I moved it to the appropriate forum. Then the next day, two similar users registered and then posted a lot of advertising threads in inappropriate froums. I banned their account and ip addresses urgently. I have opened Stop Forum Spam, and confirmed that they are the real ip addresses.

I thought this matter has come to the end of a stage. It may be due to retaliation. Today they came back again, using gmail, outlook and other suffixed mail address and changing ip to register my froum and post a lot of advertising threads. 

My forum is close to being overwhelmed by advertising threads. Any help? 

Thanks in advance!

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I just limited the number of posts per day for the "registered" user group, and now the situation has improved somewhat 

Good to hear.

We all moderate boards differently, but I found restricting the posting of URL's until a certain post threshold helps quite a bit.  Denying new users from posting links - and the resultant referral.  Think that's how many monetise their efforts.  Sure, many will press on with text-like links - thisisspamDOTcom - but sure puts a crimp in their efforts.  And legitimate members are far less enticed until our moderators can deal with the problem account.

We use @Crazycat's plugin with other measures quite effectively for our board:

https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?acti...w&pid=1264

(2021-03-15, 10:21 AM)nixer55 Wrote: [ -> ]Good to hear.

We all moderate boards differently, but I found restricting the posting of URL's until a certain post threshold helps quite a bit.  Denying new users from posting links - and the resultant referral.  Think that's how many monetise their efforts.  Sure, many will press on with text-like links - thisisspamDOTcom - but sure puts a crimp in their efforts.  And legitimate members are far less enticed until our moderators can deal with the problem account.

We use @Crazycat's plugin with other measures quite effectively for our board:

https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?acti...w&pid=1264

Nice to see such a good plugin! 
Thank you very much! thanks a lot!