vBulletin Spam Prevention Tips and Tricks
vBulletin is probably the best commercial solution for starting a forum available today because it offers a wide variety of features, an excellent administration panel and a variety of both free and commercial plugins and “products”. I have been using vBulletin’s software for the Pligg Forums for nearly two and a half years and through that time I have had to deal with a lot of spam, especially in the past few months. At first it was a rare enough problem that I was able to maintain the spam by manually removing a thread here and there once a week. Through a vigorous program of spam bot registration prevention and keyword monitoring from new users posts I have been able to keep most spam off the general forums, but it’s taken a lot of plugins and continuous work to do so.