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Hey!

There are a couple of morons (or bots?) who keep joining up and posting garbage replies... sometimes its hard to actually make it out as spam because its quite close to the topic, the only way to finally make out it's spam is because of a link in their signatures to some crap (eg: pharmacy, viagra, get young girls, pills etc)

Is this happening to anyone else out there?
And if so, how are you handling it?
Is there some way of disabling links in sigs unless a person has had X number of posts? (if not, that would be a good plugin!)

I know you guys are constantly helping others so I marked this in the subject as "not urgent", take your time and when you get some free time please reply to this post.

Thanks!

Best to install these plug ins

Date of Birth
http://mods.mybb.com/view/date-of-birth-on-registration

reCAPTCHA Plugin
http://mods.mybb.com/view/recaptcha

Registration Security Question
http://mods.mybb.com/view/registration-s...y-question

It should keep quite alot of spam bots away, well for me it does or just wait and see what other have to say.

Recommended;
http://yaldaram.com/showthread.php?tid=224
http://mods.mybb.com/view/goodbye-spammer

Edit : not seen above responses

AND here is one such plug-in : Signature Control

(2011-07-24, 03:33 PM)thenewguy Wrote: [ -> ]Is there some way of disabling links in sigs unless a person has had X number of posts? (if not, that would be a good plugin!)

I'm not sure about only disabling links, but you can fully disable signatures until they reach a X number of posts with this plugin:

http://mods.mybb.com/view/min-posts-requ...nd-polling

And you can also disable links in posts until they reach a X number of posts with this other plugin:

http://yaldaram.com/showthread.php?tid=84

Ah!
Thanks guys! Sorry for my late reply but I thought I would get a notification when someone replies here but did not get any.

Will add all those mods and advise you wrote on top.

Cheers!