How to slow spammers down

Mick Dawlings Posted in Technical Support 7 months ago

I assume there is a component or something that can help with spammers?
We've not even advertised the site but we're getting hit hard by what seems to be bots creating useless accounts.

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us Mick Dawlings Replied 6 months ago

So far, either the component is working or the spammer has stopped. Only time will tell.

us Allon Prooit Replied 6 months ago

I installed Google reCAPTCHA v3 but still have spammers hitting me through the contact form on the main page. Any way to get the contact form cleansed too?

us Mick Dawlings Replied 6 months ago

I've installed and enabled Google reCAPTCHA v3. I'll see how that goes.
Prefer not using any third party components so hoping this works.

Thanks.

us Mick Dawlings Replied 6 months ago

Why don't you contact Google about their captchas or Cloudflare and ask them if their
captcha will block it or not? because i have no access to their rules list and don't know
how they make decision if user is bot or human.

Not sure what you are responding to. Never asked you any of those things. I only asked you for a referral of the two components you made for ossn.

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 6 months ago

Other than captchas

Some useful APIs can easily integrated using the component I mentioned before (Restrict Usernames)

https://www.oopspam.com/
https://akismet.com/developers/getting-started/
https://www.stopforumspam.com/

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 6 months ago

Why don't you contact Google about their captchas or Cloudflare and ask them if their captcha will block it or not? because i have no access to their rules list and don't know how they make decision if user is bot or human.

For me all captcha worked for the sites i tried to stop most of spam.

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us Mick Dawlings Replied 6 months ago

Are you just trying to get me to act badly so that you can find a reason to ban me or something?
I shared what the problem has been, showed you the accounts being created.
You suggested one of your own components so I'm asking which you think would be best.

How do you have to be god or a mind reader to know what I'm asking? That's just playing games.
No idea why you are wanting to make things worse than they are already.

BTW, I'm not into communicating using icons other than a smiley now and then so those are wasted on me.

Indonesian Arsalan Shah Replied 6 months ago

You stole my words I feel same. You are really joking or playing games. I answered you to try and see which one works. I have no 7th sense or I am not God to know which one will work for those spam. So try and see which one have better result on your site. You expect me to try for you. 😢😢😢

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us Mick Dawlings Replied 6 months ago

I have no idea why you are playing games at my expense. You do not even make any sense now. Can you please act like an adult.