How to prevent spam on forums?

[Sanjeev]

Moderators help to control spam on the forums. I have seen they do good work on the forum.

 

[Augusta]

Create a list of forbidden words and phrases that, when used in a post, will prevent it from being published or send it for manual approval.

 

[Nomad]

If you increase time between posts and topics, you will be able to stop spam. This will control post flood.

 

[King Belieal]

Most of the forums that I use have bots that they use to delete spam messages. Moderators also helo a little.

 

[Min George]

I think that moderators is the most effective way to prevent spam posts on a forum. Some forums sends every new post into moderation before they are publicly viewed.

 

[kit_hung]

I have noticed that most forums get a large number of spam signups, who post junk on the forum. What is most effective method to prevent spammers from registering and posting on a forum, to control spam?

It is true that spam on forums can disrupt discussions and lose the trust of legitimate users. The best way to prevent spam registrations is to use CAPTCHAs, email verification, and registration questions that require unique answers.

It is also important to set up a system to filter the content of new users, such as a first review before a post is seen. Security plugins like Akismet or StopForumSpam are very helpful in controlling spam automatically.