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i also agree, but at the same time PunBB is standards compliant - XHTML, CSS, accessible, etc and these are some of the great things about PunBB, so to introduce something like CAPTCHA would only break this which is quite bad in my opinion.

a text equivilant like "What is 5 + 3?" (random numbers) would be a good idea as a basic defence, but then, as mentioned earlier, if this becomes standard to PunBB, then bots will be programmed to defeat this which brings us back to square one. a mod i made, mentioned earlier (based on the Forbidden word spam blocker mod by Daniel Vijge), addresses the issue differently but the problem with this mod is that it must be customised by the administrator to each forum and a "one size fits all" is not going to work (except maybe for limiting URLs and post sizes for new users/guests).

Akismet, as previously mentioned does a great job but the downside with this is the forum administrator is relying on a 3rd party which may not suit a lot of people who like simplicity and total control, and who therefore chose PunBB in the first place.

perhaps integrating like you mentioned sirena, a few solutions, like CAPTCHA, "What is 5 + 3?" etc into PunBB but having them off by default would give new forum administrators the easy option to turn them on at their will. having them on by default though i do not think is a good idea as PunBB is simple and standards focused, and adding too much and breaking the standards would not be good.

try BB Spam Fighter, very small changes to your forum needed and should stop a lot of spam bots without affecting accessibility (if configured right).

a very good alternative is Akismet for PunBB which is accessiblity friendly, however checks are performed by relying on a 3rd party which may not suit.

EDIT - if you want to stop them at registration and so use CAPTCHA (not reccommended for accessibility), try something like Registration Verification Code, an accessibility friendly alternative is a sortof "What is 2 + 2?" check, but while accessible, it is easy for spambots to be reconfigured to work this out.

haven't checked the first 2 files but straight away:

, missing after

'Edit redirect'            =>    'Post updated. Redirecting …'

should have said to add in a , there to that if adding at the end.

if that doesn't do it i will look at the other 2 files but as there is only 1 change in both (and the same change) it can't be much wrong.

can you post all the changed files here so i can take a look at the problem?

there is CAPTCHA etc that can be used for that but these kind of registration checks (while good at stopping a lot of spam) are now less spammer proof than before and also, more importantly, are not accessibilty friendly and even user friendly.

no implementation is 100% effective and spammers learn how to defeat the checks over time.

i do have a small idea (not a perfect solution but a step in the right direction) for this though thanks to your suggestion i may add it to a future release - whenever i get the time and depending on how simple or complicated i make it.

well i have found that multiple URLs is one of the most common forms of bulletin board spam hence this feature but with regards to spam words, i can publish a list here (mine is over 100 words), however if i publish a list of words, spammers could change their words they use from the list if they see it. every forum can get different kinds of spam as well too, so a spam word for one forum may be an ok word for another.

an example of this is a forum to do with financial information allowing a financial word or phrase while a forum to do with gaming would classify this word as spam (at least for guests and users with few posts).

my list was made due to my forum receiving a lot of spam in the last weeks and now i haven't had any for many days.

that could be my fault in the readme, apologies if that is so.

For step 11, if you pasted the code at the end of lang/[Lang]/post.php then remove the last ,

like below:

'Remove spam word'    => 'This is a protection against spam bots. Delete the word %s from your post.',
'Remove spam phrase'    => 'This is a protection against spam bots. Delete the phrase %s from your post.',
'Remove URL amount'    => 'This is a protection against spam bots. Reduce the number of URLs in your post to %s.',
'Remove char amount'    => 'This is a protection against spam bots. Reduce the number of characters in your post to %s.'

);

should work then

no comments?

ok, yeah bots seem get around registering very easily that to me allowing guest posting is the same as registering.

if you try out that mod let me know, is your forum in English or another language? i have a list of 30 or so very frequently used spam words / phrases which spammers have used on my forum, since adding these words and configuring restrictions on guests and members with few posts or registered recently the amount of spam has been reduced drastically. reducing the URL amount and message size for these spammers also goes a long way in reducing the problem i believe as most new members or guest posters don't post really long messages and also don't post 20 or so URLs in their first posts lol.

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Updated to 1.0.9.2 - fix by Smartys so that square to show new posts for logged in user now lights up when posts are made in sub forums.

Sub Forum Mod 1.0.9.2
                     History:
                     Fixed by Smartys:
                      in version 1.0.9.2
                       - Square to show new posts for logged in user now lights up when posts are made in sub forums
                     Fixed in version 1.0.9.1
                       - Re-fixed topic and post counts & last post link due to invalid variable brought in from earlier version
                     Fixed by naitkris:
                      in version 1.0.9
                       - Sub forums now display in order of 'disp_position' on Index as set in Admin CP
                     Fixed by twohawks:
                      in version 1.0.8
                       - Option to set sub forums view for 'inline' or 'multi-line' listing on Index
                       - Option to hide the sub forums listed at top when viewing parent forum
                     Fixed by naitkris:
                      in version 1.0.8
                       - Added Index view from nico_somb's version and modified to work here (was seperate version before)
                     Fixed by binjured:
                      in version 1.0.7
                       - Optimised code on index.php so query isn't run for every forum processed
                     Fixed by naitkris:
                      in version 1.0.7
                       - Fixed "Moderated by" when viewing parent forum of multiple sub-forums with/without moderators
                      in version 1.0.6
                       - Fixed items in the quickjump so sub forums are indented (like fix in 1.0.4 by NeoTall for search)
                     Fixed by Timpa:
                      in version 1.0.5
                       - Correctly sorting subforums
                       - Now showing last post as it should
                     Fixed by NeoTall (Rus):
                      in version 1.0.4
                       - Fixed items in combobox "Select where to search"
                      in version 1.0.3
                       - Fixed search in SubForum when using "Non-MultiByted" language
                      in version 1.0.2
                       - Correctly displaying Last Post, Last Poster and Last Posted Time
                       - Correctly displaying Total Topics and Total Posts
                      in version 1.0.1
                       - Correctly creating Last Post link
                       - Correctly displaying word "Topics" on SubForum header

You will need to re-generate your quickjump cache after applying this mod for the quickjump to indent. The Clear Cache administration plugin can do this for you easily and is available from the PunBB Downloads page.

All credit to nico_somb for the Index view code as it is just taken from his version and modified a tiny bit to work with this one.

Sub Forum Mod is copyright of pabb.

requires loading tons of JS though, slows down forum for those on slower connections or some distance from the webserver.