Pinto
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Question for forum owners using Wordpress, how do you deal with spammers? what plugin or other methods do you use beside manual moderation?
Dealing with spam
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I haven't used wordpress forums since it will be only for blogging and using such type of scripts are not recommended. Try Xenforo and you can maintain it easily.
I don't use WordPress for forums either - but I think backward questions are effective for any forum. For instance, you could ask something like: "What is the word bat spelled backward?".
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There are lot of ways to control spam in forum scripts, but wordpress is built for only blogging not for other purposes. If you want ecommerce site then move to top ecommerce scripts instead of woo commerce.
BTW how it is working presently?
BTW how it is working presently?
With automated systems, I usually have a question about a colour of a product during the registration process. But the problem is always dealing with humans that are spamming, it's important to deal with them quickly manually.
If it looks bad for you, then just ignore my profile. Whats your point in this thread? except in increasing post count?
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Alan
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With wordpress i always set guest messages to be reviewed by an admin, though i know and heard there is a wide selection of spam plugins, i have used akismet which comes bundled with Wordpress and jetpack whichhas worked well for me but not all spam prevention stops everyone but we are getting better in fighting back.
I had to go with a captcha system for registrations as I was getting a large number of spam registrations. The moment I implemented it, I'm not getting any spam. And in terms of comments, I just manually approve everything
Is Askimet paid - cause a free weaker version - though good enough - also exists?
Probably captcha works. However, a weak form of captcha simply wasn't working for some forums I had (XenForo).
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Hello,
I have used wordpress mainly for blogging purpose. And according to me, Akismet is good. It worked well for me.
I have used wordpress mainly for blogging purpose. And according to me, Akismet is good. It worked well for me.
I have used its free version and i was satisfied with its service.
If youre talking about bots that keep spamming your comment section, the best way to his to have a capcha for your comments.
How about the YOAST plugin? Do you think it helps much with spam?
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I forgot the name of the plug-in, but it was free and it was effective. Anyway, don't pay for spam protection unless it's absolutely certain you have to. Anyway, a lot of people go with Askimet, but it's premium, but I really don't need that program.
To be honest, there are many plugins and services to deal with spam.
It's just that, they will never guarantee 100% spam prevention. The same goes to premium tools as well. Anyway, I use Cloudflare to make sure that not just anyone can access my website.
Also, I try to install good plugins as well and recruit people who are online most of the time, as staff members. In that way, we can deal with spam effectively.
It's just that, they will never guarantee 100% spam prevention. The same goes to premium tools as well. Anyway, I use Cloudflare to make sure that not just anyone can access my website.
Also, I try to install good plugins as well and recruit people who are online most of the time, as staff members. In that way, we can deal with spam effectively.
No, there is no 100 percent answer. Nonetheless, the free one I was using was good enough. I mean, everybody is always going to have to "clean house" a little on their own.
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I find spam utterly tedious to deal with, even if it's just an account signup that gets through without actually posting anything. The problem I found with most countermeasures is that they would only do something once the account had been registered, it didn't prevent the registration from occurring.
With XenForo, there is a fairly new premium offering called the "Spaminator". It appears to be fairly simplistic in its design, but it has a really good track record of preventing automated signups before they complete, whilst not changing anything for humans.
With XenForo, there is a fairly new premium offering called the "Spaminator". It appears to be fairly simplistic in its design, but it has a really good track record of preventing automated signups before they complete, whilst not changing anything for humans.
With forums at least, a good way to keep the spam out is to ask what a word is spelled backward and make sure the word isn't too simple. For instance, you could ask, "What is the word mountain spelled backward?". Anyway, another method could be just asking a hard question, one bots cannot decipher.
As annoying as solving captchas could be , it is one method that can be applied also.
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I use capatcha more often although it could be so annoying but it keeps scammers away
I think you can try askimet or wp anti spam i think if you place a captcha on the site for people to solve before visiting the site then it's okay
It's better you use captcha to screen out more people from spamming your blog
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Set a strict rule and regulation and make use of captcha
Does xenoforo offers a tool to control and monitor Spammers ?
The best solution is to install plug-in like captcha to screen out spammers, with this method spamming will reduce more on your site
Spamming can b very worrysome on both website and forums. The best way to deal with this is to download a captcha plugin to flush out bot trying to get access to your website or forum
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Spamming can b very worrysome on both website and forums. The best way to deal with this is to download a captcha plugin to flush out bot trying to get access to your website or forum
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You could use the CAPTCHA feature on your blog or website. It has been proven to effectively and conveniently protect and block spams from your website. . CAPTCHA means "Completely Automated Public Touring Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
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Yeah i think you are right about this , there are most websites plugi that have those captha features and you could just add them to your blog ,when you feel you are facing too many spam content and others i think , so there are are multiple means
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Yeah i think you are right about this , there are most websites plugi that have those captha features and you could just add them to your blog ,when you feel you are facing too many spam content and others i think , so there are are multiple means
I was reading in several sites and one of the recommendations that caught my attention is to try to use an automated system to protect your website. They recommend comprehensive systems like Akismet, which has plugins for forum systems, are easy to install and do most of the work for you. I read that other members have recommended it, you should give it a try.
Apart from that the forum users can personally see that the users of their forums are using it in the right way , providing them the required information along with their grammatical errors.
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There are many WordPress plugin you could actually make use of you , and are more concerned more about dealing and others i think , so actually if you want to fight spam content on your blog page , i would require you to download the plugin like askimet and others i think , so that's it
Most times spam massages is some how irritating am telling you it's not funny it's a very serious matter, that needs urgent attention, please we need attention to this issue it's need attention we have to write the people in charge of Gmail to do something about it .
Honestly I don't know how to deal with spam because i have never experienced such, but you can always google it to get some vital information that will help you in other to deal with spam.
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Yeah definitely can make it less as most of the users use robots and now most robots solve captcha so try to use some difficult ones. If you are a website owner then you have to deal with it.
The only way that I used in maintaining my blog on not pressed it by using CAPTCHA as this blocks anything that will be of a security threat to the blog.
Spam is like a normal system in the internet world, most users do spam, by passing information not associated with what is on ground.
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Next time you see such attitude or behavior from anyone in the forum, just ignore them and go your way. That's what you should do.
yes its a better way you advised here and it will certainly stop spam to your blog. these days so many people are using this idea to stop spam in their blog and its really good. everyone want to have clean blogging
You do not need any plugins to deal with spam comments on your wordpress site. You can go to setting and enter IP and texts commonly used by spammers and block these messages automatically
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I have never owned a wordpress website or a forum, therefore, I do not know how it goes at the back end, however, I believe there must be some plugins to stop spam.
Like seriously I want to use this opportunity to thank our forum I mean bizdustry for getting reed of spammers in here, because if not for that this site would have crash for a very long time I guess.
If you will want to deal with spammers and their menace on your forum, it is either you install the necessary tools on your site for it or go the manual way which will.bentoo cumbersome
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I have used WordPress a lot and I haven't for once linked or seen a particular plug in being linked with spam . Instead there a re some measure you should put in place to avoid this instead.
Well, concerning your question in the above post on how to deal with spam, well one way i know you can use to deal with these spammers or scammers whatever you call it, is by making use of a captcha, that way it is hard for them to bypass it
Recaptchas or Hcaptchas eliminate most of the spammers or bots that post non sense and trash comments. Nowadays Hcaptchas serve better than recaptchas.
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Try to use captchas, security questions. There was actually another thread that was so expansive (contributions from poster and readers alike). You should check it out and get more information
I do not use wordpress forums but I think using the manual moderation sounds great. It's a good idea . I use manual moderation for a channel I created too and it works perfectly for me. I will strongly recommend the manual moderation because you will have full control.
Never give out or post your email address publicly,think before you click., do not reply to spam messages., download spam filtering tools and anti-virus software, avoid using your personal or business email address.
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There are applications on Google play store that can help you automate technically and deal with spammers or you can use the manual method.
I think you should use capatcha it is a good way to keep spam out, using capatcha is the best way to keep spam away from your site.
You can install anti-spam plug-in on your website if you are using wordpress as content management software. The different anti-spam plug-ins that will keep away any trackback and spam comment from your website.
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I use WordPress for most of my blogging and it is okay because of the version I am using.
The Akismet works perfectly fine for me
The Akismet works perfectly fine for me
These are the ways of dealing with spam
- ever give out or post your email address publicly. ...
- Think before you click. ...
- Do not reply to spam messages. ...
- Download spam filtering tools and anti-virus software. ...
- Avoid using your personal or business email address.
There are so many ways of preventing spam and before applying anyone you have to know the kind of spam first so you will know the controlling measure that is suitable for it
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If you have a user generated content site, a forum, a discussion board, or even a blog, you will receive a lot of spam comments. This is very natural. If you allow people to register on your site and post comment, you become prone to spamming.
Are you talking about blocking spam comments on wordpress? I do not use wordpress, but wordpress must have an option to block spam comments. Have you searched for wordpress tools that might help you out?
Installing the neccesary tools on you sites as a forums site owner is the only way of avoiding spammers into your sites , for example blocking spammers comment on WordPress.
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Aside from that, forum users may witness firsthand how their forum's members are utilizing it correctly, giving them with the necessary information while also correcting their grammatical faults.
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I don't really know how to control spamming but you can make research on YouTube you will definitely find a way to take care of it.
With automated systems, I usually have a question about a colour of a product during the registration process. But the problem is always dealing with humans that are spamming, it's important to deal with them quickly manually.
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Personally I don't really like it when a website is actually full of spam because it makes every word at and all conducive in my opinion and I believe that it affects your website ranking.
In this era of technology we cannot do away with the annoying issues like hacking, virus and spam. Although spamming is very minor and can be tolerated at times but I am still against it. Even in social media when a friend would send me spam I will block him. Spamming is a moral issue to me.
This is actually why I really enjoyed making use of WordPress because most of their plug-in actually very effective in taking care of this kind of problem for someone's website.
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I don't even know how this should be under and I am also willing to learn , so I have to wait to hear from what others will say, most especially the moderators of this community.
Well, wordpress hosting is mainly use for blogs so I haven't been on any forum to that is hosted by WordPress. The best approach would be to have a moderator in place that would check the activities of the forum and filter out those who are violating the forums policy.
If you receive an offensive email, then the simplest thing to do is just delete and ignore it. it doesn't get harder than that. Personally, I don't even pay attention to them.
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wordpress is built for only blogging not for other purposes. If you want ecommerce site then move to top ecommerce scripts instead of woo commerce.
BTW how it is working presently?
BTW how it is working presently?
I don't have any idea on what you are saying I think that's because I don't know what those terms are, I'll much appreciate it if you shed more light on this, thank you.