Analysis on advantages and disadvantages of several anti-malicious advertising methods commonly used in forums

Forum operations are rather difficult. we should not only constantly consider how to improve the popularity of the forum, but also prevent the impact of malicious advertisements. many forum masters may have such experiences, as long as it is not managed for two days, advertisements on the forum are like flood

Forum operations are rather difficult. we should not only constantly consider how to improve the popularity of the forum, but also prevent the impact of malicious advertisements. many forum masters may have such experiences, as long as the system is not managed for two days, the advertisements on the forum will be overwhelmed by the flood! In particular, the impact of malicious advertising is very likely to lead to paralysis of the Forum.

If we manually prevent the impact of malicious advertisements on the forum, it is certainly not the best way. even the failure to operate the forum website will eventually lead to loss of confidence because of malicious advertisements, basically, software is complete, which is commonly known as a posting machine. every day, thousands of spam advertisements can be sent. if manually deleted, it is estimated that all spam advertisements cannot be deleted, therefore, it is a mainstream method to prevent malicious advertisements through the function settings of the forum site building program. I will analyze these methods in view of their advantages and disadvantages.

I. new members can post only after they have joined the task.

Advantage: software posting machine AI is relatively weak after all. if you set up a new member Task before posting, these software posting machines will not be able to identify what these tasks are, it is very difficult to complete, and it is basically impossible to want malicious ads! In addition, through new member tasks, you can also send some credits to new members so that they can obtain the rights of some basic forum members, which also improves their attractiveness to new members.

Defect: the software posting machine has undergone several generations of improvements and is used to collect the tasks of beginners commonly used in many forums. for many forums, the new tasks have been automatically completed, currently, the effect can only be said to be general. by setting up a new-user task, some users may register a Forum again, so they will get bored with this forum, finally, the forum will be exited, reducing the traffic sources of the Forum.

2. during registration, you must provide an email address and perform authentication in the email address.

Advantage: The current mainstream software posting machine is basically zero-blocking. Although the posting machine can generate random email addresses, these email addresses obviously cannot be logged in and registered with the mailbox, now it is not a simple task, so if you want to go back to your mailbox for authentication, the vast majority of software posting machines can only raise their hands to surrender.

Defect: However, for some excellent software posting machines, after entering this email address, they found that they could not receive the authentication information for these forums, because some mailbox spam systems are relatively powerful, the authentication information can also be cracked, so the security is not absolute. In addition, this method can easily lead to dislike by normal users, especially when some users are filtered out, this makes it easier for these users to register again, so this method is the one that kills one thousand of the enemy and loses eight hundred of the self-loss.

3. the same IP address can only be registered at the same time period. it is set to wait 480 seconds or longer to resume registration.

Advantage: the blocking effect on the software posting machine is average, but it can only resist the malicious advertisement of the software posting machine that will only be registered randomly, malicious ads under the same account cannot be blocked.

Disadvantages: there are still many defects in this method. some users obviously want to register more accounts and have some advantages in the forum, especially when commenting with others, if a person has multiple accounts, it can help guide the comments to their own, and set the IP address registration restrictions at the same time, it is easy to cause once the user fails to register, this will cause the user to wait for a longer period of registration and thus lose the user. However, this method has been improved recently. the more times the same IP address is registered in the same time period, the longer the interval between two registrars, the more effective the design is to prevent malicious advertisements.

4. Block Post content with keywords

Advantage: This method can almost achieve automated review, so that the webmaster can get more time to build and cultivate forum popularity, in addition, the registration account is not blocked, so the accounts registered on the posting machine can be retained on the website, which can improve the popularity of the Forum, this will make the forum more attractive.

Defect: The biggest defect of this method is the collection of keyword libraries. you may think of some common keywords at the beginning, however, these do not block the software posting machine that can be improved at any time, which undoubtedly leads to the opening of the Forum Portal. Therefore, it is difficult to collect keywords. for the webmaster of the forum, we cannot passively wait for the software posting machine to come, and then summarize the keywords. In fact, we can look at the posts on other forums where the software posting machine is broken, and summarize the keywords so that we can plan ahead, as you collect more and more keywords, your blocking effect will get better and better.

Summary: The above four methods of malicious advertising, if used separately, basically have many defects, but if the implementation of a comprehensive operation method to avoid the defects of each method, by enlarging the advantages of each method, we can not only achieve a good defense against malicious advertisements, but also enhance the robustness and sustainable appeal of the Forum.