How to block spam?
Our subscribers to our askbot powered site (and askbot.org) were hit this morning by a Chennai based spammer who was referred from: http://askbot.org/en/question/28/list-of-askbot-sites.
Our subscribers thus received a message containing this spam and their spam filters will have marked points against us as a spammer.
Two proposals:
Please can an optional method of preventing first time users from posting questions until their account has been approved be added?
(Better) Please can a feature be added to block the automatic forwarding of a message to non admin subscribers (ie. not 'Staff Status') until the new subscriber has reached a certain number of points. That would allow Staff to work with the site to self manage spam. ie. Spam and the user could be deleted quickly by Staff without other users noticing.
Comments
Any progress on this?
@Rupreck: yes akismet spam protection is now available :-)
@Evgeny Can we mark this question as a duplicate of http://askbot.org/en/question/7893/suggestions-for-antispam-measures/ to keep new contributions consolidated?
I also suggests adding the possibility to ask a (simple) question during registration. A lists of questions and answers can be provided by the site administrator. Implementation should be easy, and it is effective against many spammers.