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Posted by rebecca

Let me walk you through my morning thus far. I come into the office, log on to Trillian, and start working. I receive an IM from an SEO who makes some small talk before getting to the point: he wants me to digg/reddit about four stories. I click on the links and (pay attention here) vote for the ones I thought were interesting. I keep working. I notice that I get several email notifications from Digg, that “so and so has sent you a shout!” I click on them and see that I received several shouts from two users for the same story. And the shouts keep coming, about thirty minutes apart (about as frequent and pleasant as a pregnant woman’s contractions, I bet). At this point, I’m getting a bit irritated and disable the shout feature on my Digg profile.
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Some Anti Spamming techniques to deal with bad registrations on phpBB forums.

Totally disable (remove from template) field to enter the website (thats the major attraction for spammers). Made sure that the SQL query which inserts/updates user record (registration/profile update) inserts null/space in website field.All membership registrations are manually reviewed. (email addresses with .ru deleted without looking further)In all SQL queries which fetch user lists, stats for members added clause “user_active 0″. So that only active users are displayed.CAPCHA is must.

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