Spammers in the forum are a pain

1. There should be a check on a customer before they can post in the forum and if they are a new customer and / or only have low Karma then when they click the "New Topic" button it should display the message

Dear XXXX,

Thank you for registering with nopCommerce. We see you are wanting to immediately post in the forum. We can appreciate that new users are often in a hurry to seek help and get their website up and working.

Did you know that many questions and responses have been posted in the forum over the many years since the nopCommerce website was originally developed. This means that you can search the forum and there is a good chance you will find a solution to your issue or question. Click here to search the forum

The nopCommerce system also has extensive documentation available at this link

In addition nopCommerce offers a number of Premium Support options See
https://www.nopcommerce.com/en/nopcommerce-premium-support-services

We encourage you to consider using one of these options to help you find a solution. If you still have problems you may return later and post a new topic in the forum. Then we are sure one of the many community members from around the world will then be able to help you find a solution.

Thank you
nopCommerce Team

2. After a set number of hours (maybe 4 hours) they can post a New Topic but while they have low Karma they can only create one new topic per day.

3. The forum test should check the heading entered and not let the customer create a new post with differently similar variations of a recent previous post

4. While a customer has low karma the forum post should allow a customer to propose a New Topic then search and check for all posts about the same / similar topic proposed and make a list of suggested existing posts (this is a bit harder but it can be like and AI learning system that develops over time)
If answers still not found then say "Still not find an answer - Click here to post  ?" then allow them to fill in the body of a New Topic post

There are probably a few other rules that can be applied but these could be a good start :)
Thank you

Thanks a lot for suggestions, Andrew!

We've just implemented a very similar approach. Let's see the result

Yidna wrote:

Spammers with low Karma should not be able to create so many new threads each day
And deleting their posts should delete their Karma

Yidna wrote:
Just to revisit this one again
- Spammers with no / low Karma should not be able to create new threads within the first 24 hours after registration
--- For spammers this will reduce spam on the forum
--- For genuine users with an issue it forces them to do a better search of the forum or post on an existing thread

- Also see the suggestions above which have not yet been implemented

I was thinking about implementing my forum, but I see after 12 years since my post about 300 spam bot post per day, the issue is still troublesome. Aggravation I dont want or need. The pro's dont outweigh the con's.

No real solution seems to be available.