I don't necessarily disagree with the idea but I would like to see something more comprehensive that performs a variety of tasks including moving them into new dedicated group for spammers. The issue with deleting is they can use the email to register again, if everyone was doing that they would wise up and just keep re-registering accounts.
I understand the issue about the ban table growing too large and that is where the spammer group would come in. Once placed in that group you would have cron task to purge those accounts after a year or whatever time frame.
copernicus142 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:23 am
So a permanent ban would block people using an specific IP address that has been used for spamming in my phpBB forum?
When you ban by username by default the email is banned assuming you have not enabled reuse of email addresses.
The way I currently handle spammers is I have dedicated trash where spam posts are moved, that is set to prune after 2 years. The username is banned, the account is deactivated. I also prune user accounts with no activity in two years with 0 posts which will remove the spammer accounts entirely at that 2 year mark.
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