How to prevent recent spam from Asia?

orschiro

Hi all,

Our forum has recently been spammed quite a lot with Asian content.

Is there any way to prevent such kind of spam effectively?

You can see the spam under community.sheetgo.com.

Screenshot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/96U52BPSokpPTiJn9

Thanks!

GreXXL

orschiro you may also want to use akismet extension which detects this kind of spam very well.

murdocklawless

create a new user group and name it newusers and let new users join this group automaticly with fof default group extension and prevent unapprovals group to post.

masihdindar

My forum have same issue today.
These spammers registering by real Gmail because i installed recaptcha and fake email detection and spamblock extensions, but still they can register and send post.

murdocklawless Not need, there is one extension called First Post Approval and you can set new registered user's post for moderation.

orschiro

Thanks all!

I'm probably going for first post approval since Akismet is currently not available on Free Flarum.

masihdindar

orschiro Also i suggest you to use these extensions:
https://extiverse.com/extension/fof/stopforumspam
https://extiverse.com/extension/fof/recaptcha
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/25055-first-post-approval (That mentioned before and could be useful for new posts)
https://extiverse.com/extension/fof/disposable-emails

These kind of spammers are human actually. They just post some AD topics in forum and we can't do nothing except check their first post.
Good luck

orschiro

masihdindar These kind of spammers are human actually

Thanks. How do you know that?

masihdindar

orschiro Because they passing security and spam steps like a human. I have a exclusive extension to prevent spam tools and some of users are real human that want to get backlink from your forum by themselves.
So these kind of people just register in your forum, Activate their email, and post a topic.
The best way to prevent these people to spamming is "First post approval".

Good luck

orschiro

masihdindar understand, thanks!

I will go with First Post Approval.

A bit manual but probably the most effective in this case.

luceos

I had in mind to move some of the spam prevention logic we use here on Discuss into an extension. But because building UX takes a ton of time I never did, and JS still isn't my strong side ( 😞 ).

So, while on my vacation, I rushed a quick package together for those of you that are really feeling the pressure from users spamming links. If anyone wants to give this a spin, that would be great.

All instructions are on https://github.com/luceos/flarum-simple-spam-tools

Installation (for now) can only be done using:

composer require luceos/flarum-simple-spam-tools:dev-master

I haven't tested this yet, so if it breaks just remove it using and delete the lines in your extend.php again:

composer remove luceos/flarum-simple-spam-tools

For those getting spammed, enable these defaults:

    (new \Luceos\Spam\Filter)
        ->allowLinksFromDomain('luceos.com') // extra outside domain you want to allow in links
        ->checkForUserUpToHoursSinceSignUp(24)
        ->checkForUserUpToPostContribution(5)
        ->moderateAsUser(1), // your user ID
    new \Luceos\Spam\UserBio,
    new \Luceos\Spam\CommentPost,
    new \Luceos\Spam\Discussion,

See the repository on how to add this. There's also some explanation on these.