This mod is awesome! I was having a problem with spam bots signing up and posting links 10-20 times a day, but after installing this mod, I haven't had ONE spam bot registration in over 3 months. Amazing!!!!

I also combined it with another hack to moderate any post with [URL] in it if the user has less than 5 posts. This double defense works like a charm!!

Thank you for this mod. It seems like the spambots kicked it into high gear last week because I suddenly started seeing 100's of accounts being created. I installed it last night and not even 24 hours later, its blocked over 500 spam accounts. I had anohter 10 that got through but I caught them with my additional required question.

The only thing on my personal wish list for this would be the ability to add a trigger to block these when a certain entry is made in that question field.

Again thank you very much!

I have installed this mod on our forum due to the recent increase in spammers - and is working great. Question: any links to code to quickly submit spammers that get through to stopforumspam? thanks.

Thank you for your work, this has saved the day :)

the perfect solution would be to not have to rely on any 3rd party for the database. why not have an option to have forum owners create and use their own database? (since their forum already uses one, it's a no brainer) whilst some would prefer to have a frequently updated "general" database as it is now, you could still import a new list of usernames/ip's/email addresses each week/month if you wanted. or at least have two versions. one as it is, and the other 99% the same except that it would use your own servers/database.

Someone doesn't understand the idea behind this mod I guess.

So today, you see a new spammer on your forum, then you ban him, and he is in your internal database. Tomorrow, he changes his post, username, and IP, and spams your board again. Then you ban him manually again. And you do this every day. Maybe several times per day.

You probably do not need this mod if you do not understand why it is so useful or how spam works, in general. There is absolutely no question that this type of service must rely on a 3rd party database and an internal DB is going to be 100% useless for almost every site out there.

i understand perfectly. it's about control. i did say you could have it on a user's forum but still get updates from a centrally maintained database. the point IS, the site goes down or shuts down bit by bit and the mod is useless too. what i'm suggesting is that we not have to rely on a 3rd party. and do you think some jerks don't submit genuine emails and such just for fun? and i did not look at the names in the list but does it mean if some spammer uses John or any other real and popular name it's blacklisted?

whatever man, you rage against the machine. whilst the site now (still) offers free "support", how long will it last? and not just how long, but why rely on it hosting this "valuable" database?

again, you don't understand. it could work just like it does now except the forum also keeps a local database that gets daily/weekly updates.

Fantastic mod! Works great. Thanks. -- Rik

Thanks for the mod, it seems to work a treat but either I've missed it some where in the install or the mod replies but I cant find the log file. Its not listed under Stats and Logs. I've uploaded everything in the upload folder as instructed to do and made sure they got the right permissions too. Any ideas? Forum is 3.8.2 at present.

Cheers, Chris

Don't forget folks, the efficiency of this mod and the database relies on you submitting manually to SFS all those spammers who aren't in the database.