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Anti-Spam Post count will not change
« on: March 05, 2020, 06:15:10 pm »
I am seeing an influx of spam accounts on my forums. To combat this I am trying to add that new registrants must pass verification for their first 5 posts. However, when I change the number from 0 to 5 it refuses to save the changes. Furthermore, when I try to change the number of verification questions to be asked from 0 to 1 it refuses to save that as well. Is this a known problem? or am I dumb and doing something wrong?

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Re: Anti-Spam Post count will not change
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2020, 06:30:55 pm »
Fixed the
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To combat this I am trying to add that new registrants must pass verification for their first 5 posts. However, when I change the number from 0 to

The second one I am not seeing that on my test forum
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2020, 06:36:22 pm »
Thanks for the quick reply. Here is a screen shot of the page and sections I am having trouble changing in order to fight the new spam.

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Re: Anti-Spam Post count will not change
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2020, 06:38:02 pm »
The first one should be fixed.

The second one do you have multiple questions listed and saved below
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« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2020, 06:40:50 pm »
Ah... there is my problem. I thought it meant how many times a person would need to answer the picture verification before they could post. I am not trying to have them answer questions, but I suppose it would be more effective than nothing. The spam has gotten bad over the last few weeks.

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« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2020, 06:42:08 pm »
And thank you for fixing the post count option.

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Re: Anti-Spam Post count will not change
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2020, 06:59:32 pm »
What domains/ips are spammers coming from such as emails?
I can block them system wide.
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« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2020, 04:48:34 pm »
They appear to be @gmail.com accounts. I think I need to simply manually authorize each new registrant. We dont get so many that this will be a burden.

 

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