If poster is new (# of posts is zero), they shouldn’t open a new topic.
For legitimate new posters, they should get a page that tells them to post to an existing thread, after which they can open a new topic. A spam bot attempting to open a new topic won’t read that page.
These spam postings are getting annoying.
Thoughts?
I’m not sure if that can be implemented in this forum software.
This forum is done in PHP.
One could add this as an “if” on the function that is used to open a new thread.
But the problem will be:
Once you do this, you have to do it again each time the phpBB is upgraded by a new version of this forum script package.
I lot of the spam would stop if the admin was more involved. Simple daily reviews of the postings would reveal these problems and then action could be taken - delete the spam and ban the ‘members’ posting the junk.
This action was taken before after a few pranksters posted porn and hate images here. Can’t be that hard to do on a regular basis…