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New users?
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On my old QB64 forum, I would get a lot of "bots/spammers". Trying to stay proactive at removing them as fast as possible was a pain at best. Of course, that was back in the MyBB v1.6.x days. Things are a lot better with MyBB 1.8.x in my opinion.

First, at least on my new BASIC forum, I'm not sure about here, but I get a "purge Spammer" link at the bottom of each user's post.

   

It will:

   

In the "Login and Registration Options" in the admin section of my forum, I have these settings in place to help remove spammers:

   

I also have the "User Pruning" set up as:

   

I believe that if someone wants to register on my forum badly enough, they will follow through with the registration fairly quickly. I will only give them a day to do so before the system purges them.
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Messages In This Thread
New users? - by TerryRitchie - 02-05-2024, 11:04 PM
RE: New users? - by SMcNeill - 02-06-2024, 12:07 AM
RE: New users? - by TerryRitchie - 02-06-2024, 01:49 AM
RE: New users? - by SMcNeill - 02-06-2024, 01:50 AM
RE: New users? - by Cobalt - 02-09-2024, 11:44 PM
RE: New users? - by The Joyful Programmer - 02-10-2024, 06:15 AM



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