Spam Killed Forums

Forum Spam

Forum Spam

Spam has Killed the forum.  I’ve operated about 15 forums in the past, some of them with up to 12,000 members. phpbb, vbulletin, even a few php-nuke/phpbb sites back in the day. (i usually hate it when people say back in the day, but it works here i guess)

Well it’s official, spammers have killed the whole forum concept. Forums in general are not very profitable, they are historically hard to monetize.  It is then compounded even further when you add in hundreds of spammers, spamming your forum. I’ve read the same thing all over the internet, its a game of cat and mouse and we are loosing people.  Re-Captcha doesn’t work when your spammer is a real live human being. Continue reading …