Spam & Permissions
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:52 pm
Hi...
For some reason I'm currently being inundated with Spam on my board. I'm talking 300 new "members" in a couple of months. I've recently changed the admin settings so that I have to approve every new member, so I might be able to live with this for now, but due to the amount of spam, another problem has materialized...
Posts made by the spammers need to be approved by moderators (or myself) before they'll appear on the board, but when any of us try to disallow a post the forum displays the message "you are not authorised to view this area" !
I've looked through all the permissions in the ACP and we (admin & moderators) are all set up to perform the required tasks. Permissions all seem to be set up correctly.
Saying that I also have Captcha set up when new users register and that doesn't seem to be working (stopping spammers) either!
Any ideas?
Cheers.
For some reason I'm currently being inundated with Spam on my board. I'm talking 300 new "members" in a couple of months. I've recently changed the admin settings so that I have to approve every new member, so I might be able to live with this for now, but due to the amount of spam, another problem has materialized...
Posts made by the spammers need to be approved by moderators (or myself) before they'll appear on the board, but when any of us try to disallow a post the forum displays the message "you are not authorised to view this area" !
I've looked through all the permissions in the ACP and we (admin & moderators) are all set up to perform the required tasks. Permissions all seem to be set up correctly.
Saying that I also have Captcha set up when new users register and that doesn't seem to be working (stopping spammers) either!
Any ideas?
Cheers.