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Some guy creates like 30 accounts a day on my forum, but he never posts at all. It's seriously annoying, the usernames all look like spam bot names. I can't ban his IP, because while most of them are in the same range, not all of them are. Just look at this! They are all browsing anonymously and editing their signatures. They always do this, but they never post a single thing, ever. Except once or twice one slipped through and when they do they post 4 seemingly normal replies, but they use signatures that contain links to where you can supposedly buy free Viagra or buy real-estate in Chicago.

How many more posts are you going to create regarding to this...

http://community.mybb.com/thread-80854.html

!!??

Disallow signatures for people with less then 20 posts or something.

just get someone to be a mod just to delete his account everytime he makes one. and get askimet >.>

(2010-11-04, 03:44 AM)~Rs Wrote: [ -> ]just get someone to be a mod just to delete his account everytime he makes one. and get askimet >.>

He makes 4 an hour...

(2010-11-04, 03:27 AM)Malcolm. Wrote: [ -> ]Disallow signatures for people with less then 20 posts or something.

+1, works every time.

Unless they spam the forum with 20 posts, then make their signature.

BAN IP 173.* ?

Make it harder to register:

Use these plugins:
http://mods.mybb.com/view/recaptcha-ii
http://mods.mybb.com/view/stopforumspam-com-for-mybb
http://www.mybbcentral.com/thread-1496.html

And if all those still fail, do Manual Admin Activation.

Get all your staff in on it, give your Mods access only to that.

(2010-11-04, 07:00 AM)Ansem Wrote: [ -> ]BAN IP 173.* ?

What about innocent people though?