Spammers must be disincentivized.
Does anybody really need to post NEW TOPICS on this site over and over again in a single day? I think not.
UNA could use a new setting which limits a new user's ability to begin (create) new posts within a specified time period. Especially in the Discussions area. Or even site-wide, too.
If a new user, with spamming on their mind, could only post (not reply) once in a day, they would not return again because the admins would have had time to delete their accounts.
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Good idea, and an easy thing to implement for anyone operating UNA site (just throttle post action for your base membership in Permissions). We won't be doing it here, however, because we started collecting those "posts" for an AI model training. At some point we'd like to offer it as a tool for UNA.
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@banister Very nice suggestion to limit the posting of newly registered users, either here on unacms or on our own websites. Some people will just sign up to start spamming the discussion board right away.
Some Forum softwares like phpBB already have that functionality. The idea here is to create a newly registered users group.
Please read more here: https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/kb/article/how-to-use-the-post-count-to-limit-forum-access/
@Andrey Yasko Please consider adding that to UNA as a core feature. Thanks
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Hiya Eagle Eye. You're right. UBB Forum Software, too. (Which stood for: Ultimate Bulletin Board) also had this "delay" feature.
I remember UBB from the late 90's. Before forum software had an sql database, they just used cgi/perl scripts and flat html files for storage.
Sadly, there is now a whole industry which promises clients top spots in the search results. Which they think can be achieved by repetition of links - even on pages where the links do not fit the context. But the main search engines are catching on and can actually punish such contrived "link popularity".