Other Forum Issues

[ookpik]

Still working on optimizing spam filters.

This spammer and several others seem to be "drive by." They register, post some spam with links to their sites, then move on. They're hoping that in the time it takes a moderator to delete their posts other forum members will click and hopefully buy something, allow their PCs to get infected, etc.

One way to slow these spammers down is to institute a rule that new members have to wait a while, maybe just 24 hours, before they're allowed to make their first post or before they're allowed to put a link in a post. A delay like that is enough because most of these spammers won't both to come back.

AFAIK some forum software has a feature like this. Does MyBB?