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marc1024

marc1024

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As title says, anyone know any forum i can download and upload to my website for free and is easy to set up?

Im currently using phpbb3 BUT
ESKC Forum if you see ...its 100% spam. Iv been at it for 4 hours deleting at least 1000 users and deleteing there posts at same time but they keep coming back :\

If you know how to mass delete spam or any addons/mods please feel free to recommend me them.

thanks
marc
 
What antispam measures are you running?
Old fashioned black and white captcha, colour captcha, and recaptcha images have been cracked recently.

Try the Q&A option (but don't use an obvious question like what colour is the sky). You could ask them to write the 4 letters of the name of the site, but don't actually say what they are in the question.

That should stop the spam dead.
 
Kevin Clark said:
What antispam measures are you running?
Old fashioned black and white captcha, colour captcha, and recaptcha images have been cracked recently.

Try the Q&A option (but don't use an obvious question like what colour is the sky). You could ask them to write the 4 letters of the name of the site, but don't actually say what they are in the question.

That should stop the spam dead.
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ahh cheers! ill try that.

Im not to good with the addons, i dled a few but have increased spam.

You know any way i can reset phpbb3 back to when you first installed? want to start the forum again...dont wanna go through 100000 topics/users of spam.
 
You can go to users and groups > prune users and just remove everyone, and their posts in one go. Just remember not to remove your admin account.

Alternatively just drop the database tables, reupload a blank config.php file and the install folder and reinstall the board.
 
Kevin Clark said:
You can go to users and groups > prune users and just remove everyone, and their posts in one go. Just remember not to remove your admin account.

Alternatively just drop the database tables, reupload a blank config.php file and the install folder and reinstall the board.
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To someone who is new to forums--ish it's not wise to drop tables. This could result in lost data. Best thing is to try tidy it up the way it is and add spam prevention addons.
 
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