Cloudflare finally stops my spammers

[Josh Hall]

yes it does the job. Use to get 5+ a night but non now.

Would recommend!

Stops all of this - use to get this every night

[Patrick Chappelle]

I've never had a problem with spammers or spambots, doesn't mean they haven't tried though. I must admit, since using CF, they don't come knocking on my door these days. 

Phil from Ning suggested CF in a discussion some months back. Great advice.

[Ceddy J]

I just set mine up. Took 5 minutes tops and well worth it. Thanks Patrick and Josh.

[Josh Hall]

A quick note - Make sure you don't use simultaneous js loading because it messes up my chat in Chrome and IE.

[Ceddy J]

Okay I will double check mine to make sure its fine. I appreciate you Mr. Swap!

[RF]

Hi, what is this cloudflare and how do you set it up? how does it stop spammers? Sorry I am a little out of the loop! but I went to the site and saw many things but no clear answer or maybe I am dense, and I don't see how admins can stop spammers this way..?

[Josh Hall]

It stops spammers at the DNS level, then if suspected as a spammer (usually a bot) it will show them a captcha. All you need to do is > make an account (cloudflare.com) add your domain there > scan it > change your DNS settings with your hosting company to point to there servers and your done. You can select the level of security you need.

This is show it works - this is just from Wednesday - http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/376301-621201235614PM

[RF]

wow...thank you very much Josh! I have been looking for something like this.

[Arnold Burian]

I've been using them for almost a year, and I like them.

I also use them for their statistics, which work better than google analytics on Ning sites.

[Josh Hall]

in what way?

[Arnold Burian]

Google Analytics does not track clicks on a page unless the click takes you to another page. Cloudflare does.

[Heidi Ellis]

I've installed Cloudflare and it hasn't reduced the number of spammers who want to join my Ning. I thought it would stop them when they try to join and block them so I wouldn't even see them on my list of members to approve. Do I need to change specific settings on my Ning?

Thanks!

[Patrick Chappelle]

I've been having success with CloudFlare until the past few days. It's seems that they re getting in through the mobile version of my site, and I had to turn on the approval process. I never had this problem, but now it seems like spammers are somehow finding a way to exploit the mobile version of my Ning. It might be the same with you, Heidi.

If the spammers in question don't have a profile pic despite your networks settings requiring profile pics, then it means (according to Ning) they're accessing your network via mobile.