Spam Prevention

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Spam Prevention

People signing up on your community just to post spam is a never ending battle much like spam in your email inbox. IPS Community Suite has tools to help you fight that battle.

CAPTCHA

In the captcha section you will be able to choose a captcha type. These prevent automated spam bots by asking the user to enter text shown, complete a puzzle, or an automatic detection to prove that a user is human.

Invision Community 4.2 and below support reCAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA 2 and keyCAPTCHA.

Important Note: Google has discontinued reCAPTCHA v1 and this service is no longer available. If you are using Invision Community 4.2 or below, you will need to reset your CAPTCHA service preference to reCAPTCHA 2 or keyCAPTCHA. Be aware that both services will require you to register for a (free) API key before you can use them. Links to sign up for a free API key are available in the AdminCP on the CAPTCHA configuration page.

Invision Community 4.3 and above support reCAPTCHA 2, keyCAPTCHA and Invisible reCAPTCHA.

Flagging Spammers

The "Flagging Spammers" section is where you can set up what happens when a member on your community is flagged as a spammer. This will allow you to have a member automatically banned, remove submitted content and notify someone if you wish to do so.

IPS Spam Service

The IPS Spam service is a free service provided by IPS to clients with an active licence. From here you can set up what automatically happens to these users when they are detected as being a potential spammer by the service.

 

Question and Answer Challenge

The question and answer challenge gives you an extra customisable set of questions and answers you can present to a potential member to ensure that the user is human and not an automated spamming bot. You can put whatever questions you like in here for people to answer along with multiple possible answers.

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reCAPTCHA 1 has reached End Of Life

Google has discontinued support for reCAPTCHA 1 completely. If you upgrade to Invision Community 4.3.0, you will be switched to the new Invisible reCAPTCHA feature, however if you are on a version prior to 4.3.0 and are still configured to use reCAPTCHA 1 in your AdminCP you will need to switch to another CAPTCHA method manually.