lol - yes showing the question along with the answer does make a little more sense
(I guess that's why you make the big bucks!)

PS I think they are slowly catching on to the timer thing though
have received a few of these Rejection notices
all from same IP all within 1 minute of the forum time

Form submission time less than 20 second(s) (1 seconds)
Form submission time less than 20 second(s) (17 seconds)
The registration time was greater than the minimum of 20 seconds (33)
The registration time was greater than the minimum of 20 seconds (50)

but ofc the ones that made it past ended up getting rejected by the Q&A or spam-o-matic
:)

Well, that sucks. To be honest I was always skeptical of this method because it's not difficult to get around, and we've been doing ok for a long time using just Q&A. The only reason I implemented this is because a lot of people seemed to like it before that other mod was deleted. Well, I think the new version will still be useful to log and notify, even if the time check becomes less effective.

I agree the logging and notification is great - so plz don't give up your mod yet
-only had 2 like above out of hundreds of rejections that didn't get past the timer

Thanks for your hard work!

ps - a small (probably enough for a slice of pizza - in the US vs. UK :) ) donation may be coming your way soon

Don't worry, I'm not giving up, although I'm not sure how long it will take since I'm kind of doing it in my "spare" time, along with a pile of other things. I was concerned that the retries that your log shows might be a new feature of spamming software, or an existing feature that no one's bothered to turn on for vbulletin. But I suppose it also could just be retrying on error, in which case it could be detected. I have a few ideas but I think I'll keep them to myself for now. :)

Also, thanks for the donation.

hi,

I am swapping the register template in a mod I am creating by creating a plugin at register_form_complete:why can't I get the timer to be active in the new template which is basically a copy of register template plus some additional stuff?

I'm not sure if you're talking about the part that stops the submit button from being pressed until the time expires, or just the time check in general. This mod adds the button javascript to $headinclude and adds the form hidden fields to $timezoneoptions, in a plugin that uses register_form_complete and an execution order of 5. So if your replacement uses those [S]and has an execution order > 5,[/S] (Edit: execution order shouldn't matter, template is rendered after that hook location) then you're OK. It could also be something else about your mod, but I wouldn't be able to know without seeing it.

thanks. I was talking about the submit button. If it's ok with you I could PM you a link and admin access. Increasing execution time did not help

Facebook register doesnt work with this plugin..
Any suggestions?

Well, all I can say is that I tested it with fb registartion and it seemed to work. I can look in to it again.

Yeah it worked(I thought it didnt because of the error message).. Registration was successful but shows errors:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/register.php(90) : eval()'d code on line 247
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/register.php(90) : eval()'d code on line 247