Hi,
I’m new here. And thanks for the helpful tips you have here. The links are great as well. Its good to know the preemptive measures against forum spamming, we can all put to good use.
Very useful tips. I am thinking about creating forum. I know that create live useful forum is very difficult challenge. This is next step I need to manage forum.
Thanx
Very useful information, I will use on my forums
THX
i have read all the rules of some forums…the main is problem those rules aint right sometimes…my friend get banned for using pink color on his singature…so wheres the truth? (p.s. it didint happen in this forum!)
I run a forum myself and i cant tell u how annoying it is becaue of people posting dumb things
The default forum register pages are all spammable. No question there.
Try this:
there is a hook just before the registration page is called. Add:
header(‘Location: someotherregisterpage.php’);
Then make use of the VB API to register a new account with your own signup form.
Result? - absolutely no spam in over 4 months (vs. 5-10 spammers per day).
Take your pick 
thanks very much… i need to this tips coz’ I’m going to upload my forum this week.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but if you join Project Honey Pot and place some hidden links, you can help identify spammers for their blacklist. There’s also a mod for phpBB that allows you to ban IPs from that blacklist.
So long as people are careful in their anti-spam efforts.
One forum I went on when I was learning Flash (the forum of the guy who has many great Flash tutorials) had various spam words. You never knew what the spam words were (or, I never found them). He had a pac-man Flash tutorial and I had a problem with the pills that pac man ate. I found the thread about the Pac Man Flash and when I also asked how to space the pills, BAN! You used the word “pills.” Christ on a stick.
Second, if your grandmother can’t read those captchas, then don’t use them. I’d be on a lot more forums except I can’t read most captchas. Nothing wrong with my eyes, but my brain is always second-guessing… is that an i, or a lower case l? Is that a D or is that little smudge underneath making is a P?
Excellent list! I’ve seen very little spam at sitepoint. Is sitepoint that good or are they just lucky. I had a small forum I shut down because I was sick of the spam.
We’re on spam like white on rice. We see it, we remove it. No mercy for the weak; and spammers are among the weakest of them all.
We get tons of spam. But like Dan said, the moderation staff is all over it.
Really great tips to avoid spam on forums and blogs…all forum administrators should follow it…
Very useful tips…let me know how everything works with the CRON
Sorry for OT : is there any way to track the origin of the spam?To get spammers adress and so. And then get a couple pipehead ******s,get a blowtorch, and get medieval on mr spammers *** 
most of the spam on my forums is human 
have to ban their acounts. I have captcha and email verification which stops a lot of the automated bots, but u still get the human spammers
I had a similar problem and went through a stage of heavy moderation for a while. Things have improved over the past few months though.
I don’t have a lot of problems with the auto spammers though and try as best I can to stay on top of anti-spam measures and follow good tips as provided in this thread.
absolutely to remain vigilant is the key…
Thanks for the info. I had a forum up for a while on a site I used to own. I took it down after a 2 weeks because I was getting about 50 posts a day, 49 of which were porn spam.
Thanks for your useful tips.