Can I use this to stop bots on posting on the forums as guests?

Best not to allow guests to post in the first place. This will not stop bots from posting as a guest as it only stops them from registering

I have the name part disabled and it works fine as a bot is not just checked on there name when registering

So this is preventing some legit users from signing up - is there a way I can whitelist particular IP's?

We have a special guest section for people who are having issues with the forums. But a lot of bots post there as well, hence the question.

most bots post links, should limit the # of url links the guest group can post.

Greetings.

Congrats on a great tool. A couple of observations:

1) Spammers are getting smarter and coming in after a failed attempt from another IP address. If you look at our logs:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1317125596

you will see a couple of users that tried to get in and failed with a spammer IP address. They then connect via a different IP address that isn't YET flagged in the system and can get in. (geraldevens and JohnAdams even used the same IP address 112.206.138.240) I would think that once a user attempts to get in via a failed IP address, the email address they attempted to connect with would be added to the database so that any future attempts would be prevented. (as well as adding IP addresses from bad email addresses) If when geraldevens tried a second time, the system knew he was a spammer, the IP address of his second attempt (112.206.138.240) would have been logged as well. Not only would he have not made it in, but JohnAdams would not have made it in either.

2) Is there a way to manage/report spammers from a user profile? From the documentation it looks like the only way to report a spammer is through the forum post moderation tools. What about spam that post in a Blog and not a forum? How do I mark that user as a spammer? (sorry if it's been answered, but I couldn't find any insights in the 80+ pages of thread) Having a tool in the user profile to mark them as a spammer would be useful. We want to contribute to the KB of spammers on the StopForumSpam site.

Anyway, thanks for building this tool. A site I help admin has been targeted by spammers and this tool is helping fight those attacks. (it would even be better if the previously mentioned items were incorporated into the product) :)

Cheers!

--Ed

flag there user name or email to http://www.stopforumspam.com

I did that for the three that passed but it's going to be hard to keep it up without a quick way to do so from the offending user profile or blog post.

--Ed

Apparently for that spammer, only their first IP had been flagged so far, neither their username or email or new IP had been caught yet so far. This is the case of a new spammer, and will occasionally happen.
There used to be a feature of reporting a user from inside the AdminCP, it that was taken out with the latest version, but has been promised to us again in the next.

Patience is a virtue around here...sometimes mods don't get updated for a long while :(