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Is there anyway of getting rid of spam and bots quickly?

My forum TalkGFX is riddled with spam and I'll like to sort it out, but don't fancy going through each and every thread on the forum junking all the posts. I also want to keep the member count as it is.

I doubt there will be an easy solution to this but if anyone has any tips or advice then I'd much appreciate it.

My forum is MyBB if that helps.

There's a couple of plugins which prevents spamming on your website,

I'll go search for them, hold one a minute.

Yeh preventing spamming isn't really the problem. The spam has already occurred, I just want a quick way of cleaning it all up without getting rid of the member count. Really doubt there is a way of doing this but thought I'd ask anyway.

(10-23-2011, 08:55 AM)Fragma Wrote: [ -> ]Yeh preventing spamming isn't really the problem. The spam has already occurred, I just want a quick way of cleaning it all up without getting rid of the member count. Really doubt there is a way of doing this but thought I'd ask anyway.

No problem, if you have premium membership on Omni's MyBB Central website then there's this plugin which you can download and begin using -

http://www.mybbcentral.com/thread-1727.html

You can enter the member's username into the plugin through the Admin CP and it will automatically delete all of the users posts.


Alternatively here's some plugins to prevent spam in the future -

http://mods.mybb.com/view/goodbye-spammer
http://mods.mybb.com/view/stopforumspam-com-for-mybb
http://mods.mybb.com/view/fassim-anitspam

Take care!

Fantastic! That's exactly what I was after! Thanks a lot mate!

(10-23-2011, 09:10 AM)Fragma Wrote: [ -> ]Fantastic! That's exactly what I was after! Thanks a lot mate!

You're welcome and I'm glad I could help, let me know if you're in need of anything else!

You could always make the captcha more diffcult.

(10-23-2011, 09:47 AM)Muted Wrote: [ -> ]You could always make the captcha more diffcult.

I remember seeing a plugin for this somewhere, possibly on MyBB.com.

yeah Omniscient has all of these installed on the other forum which he owns.He didn't add it here I dono why

(10-23-2011, 09:56 AM)ρяιη¢є Wrote: [ -> ]yeah Omniscient has all of these installed on the other forum which he owns.He didn't add it here I dono why

Well I guess these are two different forums, I'm not sure though.
I would very much like to see the Post Activity plugin included on this website.