How to stop review spam

nootkan

Member
License Active
Looked through the plugins and couldn't see anything that stops review spam. What are the rest of you doing to stop the spammers from leaving review spam? Using version 1.2.
 

cajkan

Active Member
Hello nootkan,

Im sure lots of users have the same problem or they didnt noticed that yet.

My solution:
Go into the admin panel - > Change Settings - > Member Settings - > Check this field " Require new reviews to be approved before being listed "
Go to your skins folder, find rate_form.html, before you edit rate form, make sure you add into " child " folder.
You can now completly remove all the code there, or you can add some tricky words for the spammers :)

For the users who didnt know about this review spam, you can check:
mysite.com/review/username/
 

Mark

Administrator
Staff member
Cajkans solution is perfect :)

you can also remove sources/rate.php for added good measure.
 
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