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Dave T
May 7, 2008, 6:59am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator
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Hi, I don't know if anyone can help me with this. I have just discovered my forum has been spammed. I have over 500 replies to a post. Is there a way of deleting them, other than one at a time. I have disabled guest posting for the moment.
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Use the Split function to move the spam to a new post then delete the post once moved.



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I think an Akismet API Key could help also. Thats the very bottom setting in when you view all settings in admin panel.


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I think an Akismet API Key could help also. Thats the very bottom setting in when you view all settings in admin panel.


Yes I have enabled it over the last couple of days and I have had no spam postings at all. I still don't know if there is a way of checking if is stopping spam though.


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The way Akismet works is, when a "serial spammer" posts spam on any forum or blog using akismet and its reported as spam the askismet database stores this info, so when they spam on your forum it will be known to be "probably spam" and may await a moderators approval before it goes "live"

about the only way to check would be to post deliberate spam on blogs then post on your forum to see if its reported, that is kinda suicide though, i wouldn't do that.

Time will tell i suppose...


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I would disable guest posting altogether. On one of my forums, I forgot that I had guest posting enabled and there was a lot of spam. I disabled guest posting and deleted the spam. Now there isn't any problem.



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Go to the Forum Statistics, it'll show you how many spams Akismet has blocked.


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I would disable guest posting altogether. On one of my forums, I forgot that I had guest posting enabled and there was a lot of spam. I disabled guest posting and deleted the spam. Now there isn't any problem.


I would agree, but sometimes needs must. I am trying the "Leave a comment" approach.

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Go to the Forum Statistics, it'll show you how many spams Akismet has blocked.


Thanks never thought of looking there.


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Glad to see you sorted it.

On a COMPLETELY different side note, HOW on earth have you been online 200+ days more than justin? or anyone else here?


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Glad to see you sorted it.

On a COMPLETELY different side note, HOW on earth have you been online 200+ days more than justin? or anyone else here?


Must be the sad life I lead, I really can't answer that.



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haha, hey i'm infront of my screen alot more than most people, lol. I'm the sad one..
I'd guess it would be an error maybe your session not timing out or some firefox addon maybe? O.o


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Wow. I never noticed the 200+ days. If you stay logged in and tell the forum to remember you, I guess that's possible. lol



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Wow. I never noticed the 200+ days. If you stay logged in and tell the forum to remember you, I guess that's possible. lol


Not really.  Actually, it updates based on if you've been logged in in the past 10 minutes (or however long your active log is set for).  So if you look at a page for 2 minutes, come back 5 minutes later (by clicking), it'll add 7 minutes to your time because you never "timed out".  But if you waited 8.5 minutes to click, it would add 0 minutes to your time.


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Why 8.5 minutes?

So what caused his time online to be so huge?


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Very interesting. Sorry for digressing from the main topic though...



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