@Thornagol: Well, you can always nofollow the links of members with say 1k posts and below to further discourage this type of activity, but in the end if your forum receives awful many visits the spammer could just use it to receive direct benefit in terms of impressions/clicks and then the moderation is really the only counter. But if you don't want to invest much money in moderation, there are quite a lot auto prevention things that you can set-up to find yourself out of the 99% of the spammer's lists (even of those guys from India lol).
The only way for them to stop 100% of this stuff if for them to require moderation of every post.
Not every post, just the first few on the forum, which contain certain marketing keywords/links is enough. It's quite easy to do actually since 99,9% of the posts who trigger the spam keyword/link filters are actually going to be real spam and the forum loses nothing from not seeing them immediately. But if you want to screw the spammers more this atm is the better way although the forum quality drops, but that's another topic, which I doubt is the case lol.
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@Rob64: Nofollowing is something that does not affect the regular poster (you), only the spammers, don't worry about this.
@Thornagol: Well, you can always nofollow the links of members with say 1k posts and below to further discourage this type of activity, but in the end if your forum receives awful many visits the spammer could just use it to receive direct benefit in terms of impressions/clicks and then the moderation is really the only counter. But if you don't want to invest much money in moderation, there are quite a lot auto prevention things that you can set-up to find yourself out of the 99% of the spammer's lists (even of those guys from India lol).