Just a quick post this morning, which is to big up the Stop Forum Spam website.

We use the vBulletin software and despite having all our external links being ‘nofollow’ we still get targeted by spammers. It is normally pretty obvious which members are spammers before they even post, but what Stop Forum Spam does is to allow you to check their email address, IP Address or username against their database first so you can delete the member before they start posting. No-one is going to be daft enough to follow their links anyway, but if left unchecked it can start to clog up the forums and cause annoyance to members.

If you use the Stop Forum Spam service, please obtain an API key and start contributing your own spam finds – it helps keep the spammers at bay and means discussion forums stay useful places.