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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, email address, name, or fingerprint. 📝 NOTE: A "fingerprint" is a randomly-generated ID that Vanilla assigns to users at login and which is used to determine whether…
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Moderation Process & Tools
You can moderate the content that displays in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. This means that you can control what user-generated content does and doesn't appear in the community. Vanilla also simplifies this by providing some "automated" options (described below). Additionally, as an Admin, you can assign…
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Pre-Moderating Content
Pre-moderation of every post made to a community is not something we recommend as a general rule or best-practice. However, there might be communities or situations where doing so would be beneficial. This article provides a list of tools that you can use to pre-moderate content in your community. Civil Tongue (swear word…
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Spam Prevention & Detection
This article provides an overview of all of the spam prevention and detection tools Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) provides to help keep your community running smoothly. Spam detection Vanilla includes two spam-detection addons: Akismet and StopForumSpam. You can manage these in your Dashboard > Settings > Addons > Addons…