Woke up to over 1,200 EasyDiscuss posts not created by users and with password protection
By Sean Carney on Thursday, 06 October 2016
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I found over 1,200 discussion posts this morning. All spam. I am trying to figure out how to lock them out. They all have html in them, have password protected and have values in the author field even though they do not appear to have been created by a site user.

I would like to know if you could direct me to make this go away. Unfortunately it may be related to my other ticket about the Recaptcha bug because I am not able to set up my profiles properly because of it.

Anyhow, I will try to compare all the settings from my other site with EasyDiscuss to see if I can figure out how these guys are getting in.

Sean
hey Sean,

I already help you disabled some permission from backend Easydiscuss ACL, now the guest user shouldn't have the permission to submit a new question and reply on your forums.

Hope this help.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 07 October 2016 13:59
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Hello Sean,

Are all the posts created by the same user or are they created by guests? You should now delete all of these posts first!
Mark
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Friday, 07 October 2016 00:15
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I have deleted them all. They were created by guests. I really don't want guests to post in the forums. I would like them able to read but not write. I must have a setting wrong still and have looked quite a bit and not sure what I am missing. Any help looking at the right permissions will be appreciated.

I also configured Akismet and also Recaptcha and hope that will also help.

Sean
Sean Carney
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Friday, 07 October 2016 01:29
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Thank you. I will follow your lead from here. Thanks for showing me the answer. I should have thought of that!

Sean
Sean Carney
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Friday, 07 October 2016 20:22
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No problem Sean! I am exploring the possibilities of integrating http://stopforumspam.com/ . Akismet doesn't seem to do very well with forums.
Mark
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Saturday, 08 October 2016 02:19
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I will keep my eye and ears open to hear how http://stopforumspam.com goes for you.
Sean Carney
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Saturday, 08 October 2016 04:15
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Alright Sean
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 08 October 2016 09:57
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I had the same problem, thanks.
maribel
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:41
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Hello Maribel,

You should reconfigure your ACL in EasyDiscuss or enforce strict anti spam measures to prevent spammers from spamming your forum. Either way, if you need our help, please start a new ticket on our forums
Mark
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:59
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