Forum: vBulletin Forum Moderation

I thought it might be useful to build a list of techniques spammers use to spam forum websites. If your member list is public: Set up a profile with spammy links in the website and signature locations and then never post to avoid detection. Put URLs in other areas where it doesn't resolve to a...

Do you have a co-admin on your site? What criteria do you adhere to (if any) when considering someone to be your co-admin?

How do you set up moderators for your site? Do you use Super Mods? Regular mods? Do you assign your mods a particular forum(s)?

Hey Guys, I wanted to share something a number of my moderators have been doing on my board. Lately, they have been reporting posts before fixing them. This solves a problem we had with people claiming their posts disappeared. At any rate it's works out great, a copy of the original post...

Hi I like to think of my self as a nice person and love to offer people as much as they want, but when it comes to getting moderators and keeping them I must do something wrong some where. I have just removed a list of moderators that havent been back to my website for a long time, at the...

Do you have a specific criteria that you adhere to when selecting moderators for your forum? If you do, feel free to share with us what that criteria is. Thanks!

Do you train your forum's staff? I've always thought that the technical part is easy to teach. Ex: how to move threads, split them, ban a spammer, etc. I even have a nice guide put together full with screenshots and all. When it comes to judgment calls I think they either have it or they...

Hey folks, I'm trying to do something to organize things and make the subforums display in a user-friendly manner as well. Here's my URL: http://www.glamrocktalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3 I'm hoping to possibly have a tabbed approach to these subforums and group the band names...

i have a new member who was on the forum for all of 2 seconds then starts posting his forum all over my d*mn board...how annoying is that! he did it in the middle of the night when i was asleep. i don't mind when people put their forum, website in their sig but this is ridiculous. and he is a...

I recently got a member named buddha that logged in a week ago and got to PMing people. I thought it was strange that he was PMing for HOURS so I googled for his IP, email, username etc. I found three sites out there that had him pegged as a spammer so I temp banned him for a week with a request to...

Does anyone know of a way to delete all posts from a certain user in one fell swoop. I need to get rid of a bunch of posts from a spammer.

As generally happens in a good thread, there are some really good posts and some that drift away from the subject. I'm moderating a board for a friend and I'm trying to figure out if there is some way to highlight the best posts within a thread so a new member doesn't have to read everyone,...

Ok I have a question. My vBulletin forum is 3.6.9 version. I wanna know this. I wanna check what my moderators are doing and and how long they are online and when they logs off. Can you tell me how do I do that? Please tell me in step by step

(Note: Reported posts* are notified to all Mods + SuperMod. Any reported posts generates an e-mail to all Mods, advising them of the reported post. The act of reporting auto-creates a new thread in the Mods-only sub-forum.) Dilemma We have a few members who are on Moderated Posting. I.e....

I dont know if this is allowed on this forum, but as far as I know this forum replaces the help wanted. I am wondering if any of you need an admin for your forums. I would prefer not to give alot of my info here, but the largest site I am an admin has 10,000 members. If you need help, email me at...

What are you? An admin, moderator, both? -Raymond

I kinda made it like this to Keep order "Like my Police Dept lol" Head Administrator - Me... as always Asst. Head Administrator - When im not around or second person to go to Site Developers - Coding Staff Developers - Getting people on our board to know how to use the panel

Hi, I hope this is the right section to post. I´m moderator of a forum and by accident I just merged two threads (by second time). But this one its worst, both threads have near 1600 replies. My other moderator partner is trying to revert the situation by moving the posts manually.

I have a problem member, if I place him into coppa, does that mean all his posts await moderation by me? If not, is there an easy way to make all his posts get approval prior to being posted?

Hey, I'm not sure how to describe this but here it goes... I have a friend who has a forum... Its has 3 Sections... 1. Public 2/3. Private.... The problem is that he is unable to give me posting access to #3 but I have posting access #2.... How am I able to be able to post on both...

Ok hoping I have posted in the right place, apologies if not. My question is this, is it possible to create a usergroup for troublesome members whereby I can be sent email notifications whenever a member of this usergroup posts on any of my forum boards. I do not wish to premoderate this group,...

What do you do when having to can a Moderater ? To keep them from Editing /Deleteing posts ect or screw the site up? DM

Hello, So my members look like they are on the verge of having one of their regularly scheduled mini-meltdowns. I took a bunch of pieces from their threads and tried to make a constructive thread out of it "How to make the site better". I even tried to include some deep linking into the...

Okay I'm having a really hard time with this specific problem, and I'm hoping I don't have to right my own code for it, because I'm horrible at it. I'm Admin of a gaming forum and they have guilds ingame, and I want them to be able to have their own private guild forums on the site. The problem...

Do you allow political and religious debate in your forum? A lot of people I know don't, but in my two forums it seems to get members really excited and causes lots of new posts/threads/ and perhaps even members. It also causes rifts frequently among members. Sure it makes some members...

Some rules, which sometimes I think should be removed and other times think they should remain. I want open discussion within reason and it's hard, but at least with rules you can fall back on them: http://www.talkbritain.co.uk/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_rules

Is it normal to pay moderators for their work? -Raymond

I run two forums and on both have created a separate section for moderators only, where they can swap notes, get advice and where I can look over their shoulder. I've found this really helpful from a management point of view. Some things I've included in the moderator's section have been:...

I am a new administrator at a forum and here are some things you should know (Please sticky this thread) The administrator control panel is not as easy as it seems Vbulletin is much different. Not like any other forum software Different versions are each very different Dont swich versions as...

Maybe this is some result of the concept of an empty forest root still rattling around in my head... does anyone ever create an admin user account that can be shared among the admins? Suppose one of the admin accounts is compromised, this would give that admin a backdoor way in at the admin...

Hello, Im admin of one forum and im having a problem, a very old problem. I dont have yet an image gallery but some people likes to open a thread to put pictures, one picture per post, the same user, and in the rules i ask people not to do that, and dont do doble posting in less than one hour....

How do I get alerts of pendng registrations? When they post, they get no email notification by design. It sits in a moderator que for moderators to approve them. My question is, how do I alert moderators when there is a pending registration?

What to do when as the admin you are no longer interested in your forum, don't want to give it away, and can't get a reasonable sale price for it? -Raymond

Hello all. Noob question here. I have created a sticky thread and I want to close it so no other replies can happen. How is this done? :confused: Can it be done from the site or does it have to happen from the admin?

I am curious, do you have some sort of guidelines for your mod's and admins to "engage" in a thread and actively moderate? I know that busy comunities and PG-13 or PG friendly communities might have some special circumstances that might influence one way or the other if a mod reacts to some sort...

A few weeks ago I stopped colaborating in a forum. And I don´t know why but I think (alright me and a couple of friends) that someone from the administration was able to read the private messages of the users. If there is a way, I do not want to know how to do. I find it is a direct attempt...

Hello, How many links do you think it is reasonable for a participating member to have in their signature? I'm asking since my old signature link was for keyword phrase that stunk. I picked some of the most relevant for my forum using that meta keyword generator mentioned in another thread...

Hi, I was just wondered if anyone has noticed this..... a new member joins but somehow manages to bypass the registration process. For example in my registration has a couple of required fields, and when I look at the new user member profile these fields are not filled out. Then later I find out...

Is there any way for me to see who voted for what on a thread rating? There is some troll on my boards who is continually voting one star for another poster's posts seemingly because this poster has a grudge against him. I would like to find out who the offender is, but I do not know how. Is...

I put this together for the moderators of my forum, I figured it may help some of you. Hope it helps someone. :p Is there anything you guys think I can add? -Dan

I've had a member join an affiliate program and has posted an affiliate link for a book he's recommending. The particular post is here. He is a good member and has asked me if this is OK. Although these might not apply to my site specifically, I see the potential areas of conflict as...

I pretty much know how user groups work, I get confused with secondary user groups. A few users have asked to be able to use HTML in their signature for various reasons, I don't mind but I'm not going to allow HTML for everyone that's just not smart. :eek: Luckily all that have asked is...

Think twice before giving members a staff position Pick your staff members wisely. You give them access to more commands which allows them to harm your site.

....from the moderaters as well..

Simple question...but is the answer as simple? Let us know why you think your forum is unique on a web with thousands of forums.

Just thought I'd let you know I've written up an article on forum spam here: http://www.securitywatch.co.uk/forum-spam/how-fight-forum-spamming-222.html What I would like to get is some feedback on useful tips and tricks I can add to this, and help keep it a work in progress. Any suggestions...