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Ban Rules
You can set up Ban Rules in your community to deny site access to specified users and/or groups of users. Individual and group bans can be set by: IP address (see Ban Rules notes, below), email address, name, or fingerprint. 📝 NOTE: A "fingerprint" is a randomly-generated ID that Vanilla assigns to users at login and which…
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Moderation Process & Tools
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) provides several tools that enable you to both manually and automatically moderate community content, meaning you can control what user-generated content does and doesn't appear. Additionally, Admins can assign the role of Moderator to other users, who then can also review, edit, and…
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Pre-Moderate Content
As a community manager or moderator, it can be difficult to keep up with every post your users contribute, especially in large and busy communities. In some cases, this can result in inappropriate content finding its way into your posts. For this reason, Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) provides several pre-moderation tools…
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Spam Prevention & Detection
This article provides an overview of all of the spam prevention and detection tools that Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) provides to help you keep your community running smoothly. Spam detection Your Vanilla community includes two spam-detection addons: Akismet and StopForumSpam. You can manage these on the Dashboard >…