[yuya360]

another solution is add captcha, add waiting time for next post.
ban the spammer IP, add word filter, so many other method to reduce spam on forum...

[roullie666]

I have some points about how to deal with spammers :
1- use anti-spam plugins.

2- Don’t allow editing of comments after a few minutes have passed.

3-Ask members to help out moderators and report for any spammers.

4- ban spammers and delete all their content.

5- use CAPTCHA in registering new members.

This should do the trick. But for all of my projects done I only did the number 5.

[amsampaio]

I usually use a plugin/mod that checks against the stopforumspam.com database and have some sort of Q&A or another type of visual confirmation (which doesn't ship by default with the software) and usually it works well. Any that gets through I ban, hide the posts and submit to stopforumspam.com to stop them spamming other forums.

I usually only ban them but I will explore this...

[long123]

Maybe anti spam or module is important because if a moderator will look for it manually then it would be very hard.

[serbog]

Yes, banning them will be the best idea here but also you can make an anti-spam system which sometimes works.

[shahzebayub]

manually it will be better if you have good admin team then remove the posts as quickly as possible and also ban the spammers and his IP also

[lightning18]

How will we know it's a spam? What if the person is just not that good in English? Do you think it's still a spam?

Anyway, I think there should be moderators and monitors in websites. There should also be an automatic spam checker especially in writing sites because there are a lot of people spamming there.

[Katriona_22]

I install a anti spam software

Can you give me the software name, spam is one of my problem and get tired of transferring it to the trash, just a waste of time.

[HarithaRavi]

We can do some level of automation to decide hether the content needs to be posted or not before letting users to post spam content . This is one way that I can think of as a software developer. Other way is to.manually monitor and delete spam content and earn or block the spammers.