Quote:Is the "Jobs" board just a magnet for spam, so that stuff doesn't clutter the General places? ...because it's pretty much all spam nobody wants to look at, right?
I actually took a couple jobs from the other forum a few years back. Paid via paypal. I like it. It gives the option for those that want something created in python, without knowing python, and are willing to fork over money for it. Usually you can tell what is a school assignment as they are quite "mundane" or restricted to doing it a certain way.
The sole job on there looks a little spammy, especially if you go to their site. But most of the time you get notifications of open python jobs or a single person that wants X done for Y money.
Quote:Also, do we not require user's first post to need moderator approval anymore?
I installed the plugin for first post moderation option awhile ago just in case (its disabled). But this forum we have 100% control. The other forum we could not add plugins because we could not get server access. There are a bit of security features for anti spamming
1) MyBB compares email addresses and IP addresses against known spammers upon registration. We admins and mods can add a single use that gets by to this list by a single button
2) registration security question
3) recaptcha
4) email activation
5) Restriction for multiple IP addresses for multiple accounts/emails, etc.
6) Restriction for posting too much within a certain time period
7) Restricting post/signature content
8) If they get through that we have th spammer button which removes their content,account,and bans them
9) IF that gets cumbersome we can restrict posting more (such add increasing time between posts) or require first post moderation again at worst case scenario
There are actually more plugins for anti spamming, but i didnt have a major problem so we will see how it goes.