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Found a way to stop spam replies on my chatter lounge posts for free
I kept getting these bot comments selling fake crypto on every thread I posted in the chatter lounge, drove me nuts for 3 months. Finally I just turned on the "email verification" setting in the forum controls and it blocked 90% of them overnight. Anyone else find a quick fix like this that actually stuck?
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nancythomas1mo ago
@henderson.oscar six months of DMs over email verification? That's wild, mine didn't touch a single existing account.
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henderson.oscar1mo ago
Did you have to re-verify all your existing members after flipping that switch? Cause I turned on email verification once and half my regulars got locked out. Some dude named @techdad42 still sends me angry DMs about it six months later. Another forum I mod on just started requiring captchas on first post only, that stopped the bots without the headache.
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Wait, captchas on first post only actually works without driving people nuts? Seems like one of those things that's too simple to be true but might actually be the fix everybody's been missing.
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