Someone in the 3.8 modifications forum is offering a lite version of your mod. I pointed out that stopping spammers via calls to the StopForumSpam.com database only works well because of forum feedbacks - something your full-featured mod does which the lite mod doesn't.

Nominated this for the MOTM, and would do so for the year if such an honor existed. As a suggestion, perhaps if you were to offer this mod in the 3.8 section then more people would be able to find your very cool and full-featured mod, and won't have to settle for less.

Seems that the confusion is around the fact that this mod is not specifically labeled for vB 3.8.. perhaps that is something that can be done to remove the confusion and prevent splintering the project.

I guess I copy just copy/paste the mode into the 3.8 forum as well.

... or people could just read :)

That "lite" version will offer you a very simple method but only 1/3 of the checks as each IP is limited to 5000 queries a day and it does no caching.

Ive dusted off Firebug and cut a huge chunk of code out in order to get 0.7 out the door ready to put that code back in for 0.75

I just created a copy of this mod in the 3.8 forums, lets see

they have to change all 3 things or they will be denied. then they just get submitted again.

The stopforumspam.com domain is down at the moment as the site owner forgot to renew the domain. Ive tried to contact him and just hope that hes reading his emails this morning.

EDIT: Looks like GoDaddy was at fault this time. If youre using GoDaddy, expect problems, for ever.

Does this translate to the mod is no longer functional with that web site any more? :confused:

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

Its all back up and running. After he renewed the domain, godaddy changed all the site DNS to point to their advertising pages. That alone is a good enough reason to move your domains to a much more reliable and above-board company.

Warning, large image :)

This is a teaser for the 0.7 profile page. The drop down provides this list but I will be moving it to a tick list shortly

Ban & Cleanup (removes all posts / threads / PM / signatures / text fields in profile)
Delete User
Move to group
Ban IP

The large colour image has a toogle button to display the data in the cells or just the colour map, selectable in the options.

The rows in the "by relation" subnet data doesnt yet include the status on any cached spammer data. Refreshing the entire table could result in anywhere from a dozen to several hundred queries, so it will only be cached data if any is found. The red X shows a user already banned. Clicking on a user takes you to their profile. There will also be another table, which dispalys all that users posts, all posts "by relationship of subnet" as well.

Ive editted out some of the email and usernames to protect my test accounts :)

The full size image can be found at

http://www.fizzleblood.net/vbStopForumSpamProfile.png

Has anyone tried this with 3.8.4 with mods on your forum? i would like to have this but dont wanna mess up my forum and forum mods

@Brathamike, Works perfect under 3.8.4.. several posts in this thread also confirm.

.. including the mod details post itself

yeah, but who trusts the developer ;-)

i can not find where to do the edits to allow for sumbission to the stop spam site. I am comfortable with doing them manually but I am not finding the quick links section as mentioned. I am running 3.8.4

... down the mod further,is this link

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=289

Which gives a mod you can import to do it.

As mentioned in the manual edits section, the manual edits were for 3.7.x but as the source changes so much and as Im not licensed for 3.8.4, sections vary. For the moment, stick with the addon mod from Wired1

i downloaded those and tried to import as plugins, which hook should be used?

got them input. thanks for the help

Which version do you have access to, and how come you don't have access to 3.8.4?

owned license expired?

yup, owned license expired and the forum that I was using on it, has since closed. So, I dont run an open forum anymore and develop this for the love/hate of spammers. I contacted vBulletin and asked them If I could use a newer version, just to code against and they gave me the answer I expected, that being a "pay up". I do have a 3.8.1 that a friend has on his forum, that Ive installed as his development system and hes happy with that.

For the sake of getting valuable mods out, I thought vbulletin would be happy to provide updates to code, to developers but I guess not. I myself am only licensed to 3.7.6 I think, which is what Im using to code 0.7 on. Once Im happy with a set of code changes, then I export/import into 3.8.1. This is the only way to do it,. code against old source, pay up (for a version that I will never use myself) or download an p**ate version just to develop against :( (which Im not doing before ppl start screaming).

Much of the code changes from his 3.8.1 to the current 3.8.4 are bug fixes (if not all of them) so the underlying structure of the mod isnt affected too much.

Testing...

thank you for that useful product!

If you could look at

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=570

and tell give me some feedback on that post, I would really appreciate it.

pedigree, it looks very nice, really.

I can only propose in "Recent registration by subnet" table to add Country names up to the right of the flags in such columns as "Reg IP", "Reg. Conf. IP".

Of course when we will be able to touch this one our-self there can be other proposals or notes! ;)

If you mouse over the flag, its gives you the name but I guess I can add it to the side. I develop on a 1920x1200 monitor, so I forget just how wide tables can get :) Anyway, Ive taken the flag out and put the country name in instead. Much more than the table starts to wrap

Yes, I though so. But I tried to tell that it is better to see the name for some flags because some users really don't know all flags of all countries.

So for some countries it is nice to see the flags.
For others it is nice to see the names.

That is why I think that FLAG + NAME is a good variant.

I could put the flag as the cell background image...

Background image for cell is a bad idea, really.

I think it will be better to show information like this:

FLAG [lv]

In other words:
FLAG IMAGE + [Short Country Abbreviation]

Like you show in "User Detail" table for Registration IP, Last Activity IP & Confirmation IP.

ok, flag + short abbrev it is then

Found a bug in the vBulletin Settings at the vbstopforumspam. All three Check URL fields have the title 'IP Check URL'. These should be changed into Username Check URL and Email Check URL. These phrases are contained in both setting_vbstopforumspam_url_check_username_title and setting_vbstopforumspam_url_check_email_title.

Very good mod btw :up:

Damn, you would have thought that that was picked up a long time ago :)

Ill make the changes to the 0.7 xml file. edit : brain dead, it looks like I already did, ehhe

Thanks :)

First, thank you so much. I am a small business owner, and I am starting a second business which is a paid membership site. This mod has been fantastic in allowing me to spend time on my first business.

I have ben reading page after page, and immediately I have stopped reading after 24 pages. I had a problem today. People trying to register said they would go through the registration process and then were taken to a white screen. I can only find one instance posted earlier that this was reported to happen.

Forgive me if this is to basic of a question. Will setting the Query Connection Errors to Allow Registration solve this problem?

Thank you again for this fine piece of work.

yes, it will. If you set to allow registrations, then they will be allowed if the sfs website is down.

and youre welcome :)

A user named Antonia was register in my forum, but this Mod's blocked her 'saying' that the name was as spam. I searched her name on the website sropforumspam.com but does not appear. It appears neither the IP nor the email that she used for registration. Is there will be any way to move her of the relationship to spammers?

@ricardoNJ: First thing I would do is check your local SFS logs to validate that she was blocked as spam. Secondly, a lot depends on your configuration of how you handle returns from the API. Do you block, do you move to a special group with less access, etc.

I don't know what's SFS logs and how to do that, sorry . :P:D

You can check your logs under the logs section of your Vbulletin Admin Control Panel, or:

http://yourdomain.com/admincp/vbstopforumspam.php

where yourdomain.com is your domain and admiccp is your path to your admin control panel (where you do your admin work)

The generic error doesnt give either the name,ip or email address for a reason - that being that people can try again by changing one.

I just want to say thank you for such a wonderful product. I no longer have to worry about bots signing up and posting garbage on my forum. def voting mod of the month!

In the "vbStopForumSpam Logs" in my forum, I'm seeing an user:

This guy have "allowed registration"a lot of time with the same IP address and email.

that usually means he is failing other things such as captcha, etc.