AshieF73

Thank you Marc, I had it on auto but just changed to difficult to see if that helps. Is there any mileage in having a large group of security questions and changing them reguarly do you think?

Last night our forum was attacked with spam for a hour by around a dozen new forum accounts, although my mods were flagging as spam and hiding, as quickly as they did a new user and spam appeared. In the end I took us offline to clear it and banned users, reopened but closed registrations for the night. It appears to have been one individual, although they used multiple email domains and IP address to register they all showed as a specific location in India. I already had hCapture, a security question from choice of three questions and Email validation. I assume they need some manual input to clear? Today I have changed the security questions and added a few more questions. Is there anything else I can do to force more rigorous manual intervention to make it annoying for a spammer to slow them down if not stop them? Thanks. Ashley.

Thank you, I will try that option too. As you say I perhaps can't easily ban/stop, and if not validating then that's a partial success. Thank you.

Thankfully our platform gets very little spam these days, but the odd one creeps on and 99.9% of the time they are always @gmail users. I have noticed in the last couple of weeks there are a lot of what I can only assume are Gmail spammers attempting to register on the forum as the image shows. From what I can tell they don't seem to validate their account, just register them. We have recpatcha v2 enabled and a basic security question in place. Is there anything else we can do to stop them registering at all? If there were not so many genuine gmail users I could of course just block the @gmail domain. But as I can't do that I want to try and ensure we do all we can to stop them posting and ideally registering.

Thank you both, that workaround should do what I want to achieve, thank you.

Is it possible to edit the date that a user last logged in? I want to prune our member list, with some users having not logged in for over 10 years. However, there are a couple of users in that list that I need to retain their accounts so can I edit their last logged in date, so not to delete their accounts when I prune? Thanks.

+2 for users on my site. Seems to be a recent bug issue. Both confirmed it only happens when they use Samsung's own default browser, not if they use the Chrome browser. I am trying to find out which Samsung phones they are using. But does anybody know if this is a confirmed Samsung issue rather than an Invision software bug?

Hello Marc, At the moment after I updated yesterday, our email sent out 88 'Did you forget to submit your content?' in 60 seconds.

Anybody from Invision able to help? Because you no longer offer direct support requests I would welcome some help from the company on this issue. I have had to shut the email account associated with our forums down overnight so no genuine users can register at the moment

Earlier today I updated the forum software to 4.7.3 since then the email address linked to our forums account received a lot of email bounce backs from non recognised email addresses. All of them have the following as the original email sent out by our forum/email account: I posted about this issue in August here and I was told to turn off the setting 'Post before registering' which is enabled by default. That solved the issues we were having. However since this morning and the time I updated to 4.7.3 our email account started getting these bounce backs and our office 365 email account was just suspended because due to potential compromised activity of outgoing messages. I have checked and the 'Post before registering' setting is still turned off so I am at a loss whats causing the problem. Could the emails being sent out today be from prior to August where the database had stored users yet to register details and the upgrade sparked those email reminders being sent out?

Does anybody know if those ghost posts will be in a database table gathering dust that I need to manually delete or are they automatically deleted from the table when the guest fails to register?

Oh perfect, yes you are right Nathan, thank you. I can't believe I have had that option enabled all this time.

I am not sure if this is a new button, but I have just started having problem with it and spammers. So my first question is can I disable it? My email account associated with our forums was just suspended because it seems spammers are using this button and form, then don't complete the registration so an email is triggered saying 'Did you forget to submit your content?'. Hundreds this morning. I would rather forum users create an account before trying to post so I would like to disable this button.

Perfect, works. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this. 🙂

Morning all. I run a small mental health charity website and something we have found over the years is that when our community post and get a lot of topic views, but no or very few replies they take it personally. So we have always hidden the number of topic views from the forum index page in the 15 years we have used Invision. We only just updated to v4.5.4.2 and in the new version/theme I can no longer find the relevant piece of code I used to modify to remove the views. IPS support won't help or even point me in the right direction so I am throwing myself at your mercy in the hope someone can give me the heads up. I used to do it by simply removing that bit of code, but I now realise a much easier way to do it might be to modify the CSS to display none, but I can't find the actual relevant CSS class to display none to. Thank you in advance 🙂

Hi, I purchased and installed this earlier, but it doesn't actually process any of the roles, deleting users or moving them no matter what information I entered. I am on 4.3.3 Can you please check (or refund). Thanks.