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How spam can do it? | Forum
Leader dave
Jun 8 '13
Well i would assume it could be because if you changed or added the user role while they were logged in, it might be that their login cookie/session needs to expire or they may need to log out and back in again for the role to apply to that member.
Have you enabled manditory user approval ?
MarkieMark67
Jun 8 '13
No 100% to prevent spammers. But here is how I control them.
1. Anti-spammer or Watch dog. A must
2. Smart Captcha, and I keep adding questions Monthly.
3. New user roles prevent users from posting till admin approves.
4. CloudFlare Also prevents some spammers, and I can block IP & Countries as needed.
5. User IP tracking so I can check up on new user and make sure they are from where they say they are.
new
Jun 8 '13
Thanks for the advice. Watchdog, doesnt work properly, i have asked in the forum and no one replied to correct the problem. It lands my site to 500 error.
Smart captcha i havent tried, will try now.
I have applied new user roles and it works fine.
I too have cloudfare activated.
And currently i dont have any paid pluggin, so no ip tracking.
As far as the mandatory user approve is the point, i feel forcing someone to wait to get approved is losing popularity.
