Oh, yeah, that was asked a while back and I forgot to get back to it. Anyway, when a user requests the registration page, the mod adds the start time as a hidden value, and it also adds a check value so that the start time can't be faked. So if you get the message that it's missing or invalid it means that the check value wasn't submitted, it expired, or someone tried to fake it. My guess would be that it's either someone trying to submit a registration form without having requested the page first (like maybe some bots work that way), or else someone started a registration then left the browser window open and tried to complete it much later (like hours, but I don't remember exactly).

Thanks for explaining this... :):up:

This functionality is not yet part of the "mainstream" module. It is something I added to the module installed on my forum and sent the changes back to the developer of the mod. I am sure he will add this when he gets time to do it.

How about making this for vbulletin 5 ?

I won't be doing that. I don't even have access to a vb5 license. But someone else who developed a similar mod (which has since been removed from this site) said that vb5 didn't have the necessary "hooks" (or whatever vb5 uses) to create this mod. I'm sure it could be done by modifying source files.

Well, vb5 is the wave of the future! Eventually as it progresses that will be all people will be using. I was stuck in vb3 and vb4 for years but finally now upon upgrading to vb 5.1.6 I am glad that I did.

So, from those who are using this -- Is this better than spam-o-matic?

I use both

hi

any news about this?

You know, I forgot about this because I had kind of thought that apleschu posted his version as an attachment already, but I don't see it so I'm not sure what I was thinking. I'll see if I can get to it soon, or at least post what he gave me.

awesome, thank you very much :-)

sorry to ask again, but are we going to see an update anytime soon

the logs would be most useful to evaluate if banned users really are illegitimate
hesitating to install this without logs

thank you

Sorry again. I'll try to take a quick look at what I was given and post that.

I have to apologize again. I looked for this and couldn't find it. apleschu, if you're reading this, can you just go ahead and post you version here?

Just thought I'd add this works fine on 4.2.5.

Would love to see something like this, or some kind of spam stopper, for vb5.

By the way, yes the mod seems to work on 4.2.5 but when I go to the Plugins & Products / Manage Products and then click to Edit this Spambot Stopper, on the resulting page I get a Database Error,

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.5:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT *
FROM productdependency
WHERE productid = 'kh99_spambot_stopper'
ORDER BY dependencytype, parentproductid, minversion;

MySQL Error : Out of sort memory, consider increasing server sort buffer size

I tried doubling memory_limit in MultiPHP Manager via WHM, and even after restarting mySQL, same error.

This all may be due to some settings/changed someone I hired to help with database errors made on my forums, checking now.

Okay so this Database Error had to do with in my.cnf my tech guy had adjusted the sort_buffer_size parameter down low versus the default. Upon reversion to default limit issue resolved.

It's a tricky matter because we're trying to avoid database errors that kill mySQL, and hence trying to allocate server resources to where they are needed most.

I agree, great mod. Hope we can see this for VB5!