Anti Spamming phpBB spam registrations

Some Anti Spamming techniques to deal with bad registrations on phpBB forums.

• Totally disable (remove from template) field to enter the website (thats the major attraction for spammers). Made sure that the SQL query which inserts/updates user record (registration/profile update) inserts null/space in website field.
• All membership registrations are manually reviewed. (email addresses with .ru deleted without looking further)
• In all SQL queries which fetch user lists, stats for members added clause “user_active <> 0″. So that only active users are displayed.
• CAPCHA is must.

Manually revewing forum registrations may introduce some delay if you are getting tons of valid registrations, in that case its worthwhile to have few moderators to help you out.

There are more mods/hacks available to anti spam registrations on phpBB forums, check them out on phpBB mod site.

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