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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
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-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 discussions. For this reason, Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) provides several pre-moderation…
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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 >…