With regards to spam

I have found that a lot of spam trafic is coming to the site via search engines where people have used the search term "inurl:/blogs/home/"

I belive that if we or boonex could change the URL to the blogs that this would stop a lot of chinease spammers finding our dolphin based sites and joining up.

I have taken all the steps to stop these people signing up and joining my site such as turning on the confirm email on join, I have also turned all major modules like blogs, stores, events, ads, groups ect ect to dissalow imediat aproval, I block Ip's using the built in dolphin block ip system aswel as the cPanel ip blacklist on a daily basis.

However I find myself blocking IP ranges on a daily basis as well as re deleting the same users on a daily basis.

I strongly belive after looking at my site stats that if boonex or us can find a fix so as our dolphin sites are not listed in google when the term "inurl:/blogs/home/" is used this would stop nearly all of the chinease spammers being able to find our sites.

If you go to google now and type in inurl:/blogs/home/ and hit the button to search you will see that almost every link in the results are dolphin bassed sites (this is not good)

This is a screen cap of the stats for just oct 2011 from my site in blue is visitors using the search term "inurl:/blogs/home/"

I don't think the solution is for Boonex to change any of the file paths... because if they do then the spammers will start searching for the new ones. Remember these professional spammers are downloading each new version of Dolphin the day it comes out and breaking it down.

If you really wanted to stop being found by the spammers you would have to change the paths and file names on your own individual site to something unique. Which would be a PAIN in the butt plus prevent you from ever upgrading to a new version.

I look at my logs all the time and the "inurl:/blogs/home/" is just one of the many "inurl" terms they use to find my site. They also search for the footer text, the header  text, member.php, browse.php and many others. Being on the spammers radar is one of the downfalls of using any popular cookie cutter type software. Believe me Dolphin still isn't as bad as phpBB.

I think the key isn't hiding, it's blocking them from posting once they find you.