Hi,
I help to manage a forum for an open-source project.

1. The configuration to prevent spam:

I cannot use Askimet to prevent spam because of license and cost for not individual.
For prevent spam I use different plugin:

• registration question and answer
• spam-Be-Gone plugin

• Askimet: Off (paid option only)
• Project Honeypot: On
• Google Re-Captcha: Off
• Stop Forum Spam: On (free)
• hCaptcha: On (free)

In settings I also activated moderation for duplicate registration from the same IP and I requested also email verification to an account to be active.

2. The issue

Often spam profile are still be able to register and post spam content that is queued for moderation.
Often registration are queued for moderation because a duplicate registration from the same IP are made but want is bad is that also account with a bad IP reputation, no email verification is notified in the moderation queue.

Account that never verify his email address or are in bad list should be not allowed to be in the moderation queue.
If this bad account will be blocked or require to validate IP and email means IP should be not blacklisted from any antispam plugin and email should be verified before the registration can be in the moderation queue, will be much better.

Currently account that are showed with a red X near the IP and near the email in the registration moderation list still create email notification for approval to moderators, still be in the moderation queue when they should be not as they should be blocked.

Seems using the extension spam-Be-Gone plugin never help to prevent fake registration from account with no validated email address and bad IP.
If the IP has been not manually blocked in the NodeBB IP blacklist, this account still be able to be in the moderation queued also if identified as potential spammers.

Should I ask for an extension that never allow accounts to be in the moderation queue if the email address has been not verified and IP is not in some bad list?
No solution exist to improve the reduction of fake registrations and spam?

@baris oh right

@baris updated to NodeBB 2.5.2 but the question and answer plugin still be old without update. Why?

How to resolve?

@baris Not an updated version. I will ask to the developers to update NodeBB and will see if this resolve the issue. I still see no updates of plugin at the moment.

I will try to update you when they update the NodeBB version.
Thanks.

@oplik0 thanks for the reply but no updates.
If you look at my screenshot say that installed version is 0.12.10 this seems to be old. Looking at the release on GitHub seems this is a version of 7 november 2021 so I'm asking why I see this and cannot see most recent one.

Thank you!
@oplik0 , @baris I'm administrator of a NodeBB Community not in my server so I don't have access to SSH.

I have access to the admin Dashboard of NodeBB.
If I go under plugin I see the latest version of nodebb-plugin-question-and-answer installed is 0.12.10

There is a way to get latest version just without SSH with the NodeBB plugin admin section?

Thanks for the help!

Re: Question and Answer Plugin - Permissions

I get no answer but today I discovered that should be possibile what I'm asking just how?

I discovered on the Vivaldi forum user cannot set a question as answered.
How I can do the same?

I have installed the nodebb-plugin-question-and-answer and I want allow only moderator to set answers.

How to do this? I need install a different plugin?
I don't know what plugin use Vivaldi forum, looks same but with different graphics and seems allow they to allow only mod to select a best answer.

Thanks, hope to get a reply this time

Re: Question and Answer Plugin - Permissions

I get no answer but today I discovered that should be possibile what I'm asking just how?

I discovered on the Vivaldi forum user cannot set a question as answered.
How I can do the same?

I have installed the nodebb-plugin-question-and-answer and I want allow only moderator to set answers.

How to do this? I need install a different plugin?
I don't know what plugin use Vivaldi forum, looks same but with different graphics and seems allow they to allow only mod to select a best answer.

Thanks, hope to get a reply this time

Hi, there is a guide on how installing NodeBB on localhost with XAMPP, Windows?
Thanks

Hi,
there is a way to allow mark a topic as question or not, solved or not only to mods / admins?

Will be useful have more controls on the permission.
I opened a GitHub issue for this but try to see here if can be some solution to avoid user remove or set resolved status.

@phenomlab thank you for your help.

@phenomlab hum... I have MariaDB.. MondoDB never used...
The issue is that I'm not sure of the procedure for install NodeBB on Plesk.

I suppose should be done by SSH but my doubt is give some SSH command that can compromise the server. Actually I use Flarum that looks more easy to install with composer.

I want try NodeBB but no idea on how to move without a risk to broke the server managed by Plesk with all my website active on it

Hi,
I run a PHP server with Apache and Plesk panel.

NodeBB can be installed in a PHP, Apache server managed by a control panel?
If yes how?

Resolved by updating NodeBB to the latest version.

@PitaJ thank you for the answer!

this is in the user settings of your admin user

Yes, is the settings of my admin user.
Tested also in a normal user account.. but in admin backend I see there is a delay of 60 seconds for chat message so maybe for test with an immediate email I should set this to 0 or can stay set as 60 seconds? The first chat message should be notified immediately, I think. The delay option should be not an issue.

An user has write to me a message on chat and when I loaded the forum I discovered it so was not notified by email.

not the default user settings in the ACP right

Where I can check this default settings? What path I have to follow for check in admin side?

Do other emails work? Does a test email from the ACP email settings page work? Is the admin user set up with a valid email?

I get correctly every other email notification like: registration approval, post in the mod queue, new topics, new replies. I only never get anymore chat alert message by email.

Also testing email with one of the present template, in the back end works.
My admin account has a valid email address, is not a real email address but a forward but all works: usually I get emails.

Hi, in my administrator profile settings I have the following settings

• When you receive a chat message
• When you receive a group chat message

with option to be notified by notification and email but when someone send a message in the private chat system, I get no email alert.

How can I fix this?
Subscribe to Digest is deactivated (off)

Thanks

Hi, there is a way to forbid new users to include links in his messages?
A new user should not post any link.
How to set this?
Need a plugin?

@pitaj great, thank you very much!
Currently I have solved some issue but still not this.
I cannot deactivate all plugin but I will ask to the company team to look into this issue.
If I will find a solution I will post here.

Really strange because I think the only new plugin activated was deactivated and users tab still not working also load directly a profile is not working. Editing mine profile works.

Strange, not found error for communityaddress.ext/user/nickname but work if the address is communityaddress.ext/user/nickname/edit

Anyway this message is to say thank you to you, great help and fast. Thanks!

@pitaj thank you! So after disabling or enabling a plugin is not suggest the simple restart but I should do rebuild and restart?

@pitaj thank you. Do you think the command rebuild and restart can help?
I don't know what is the difference from restart and if this can be dangerous means make loose posts, users or settings.