vb.org Archive - Anti-Spam Options - [GlowHost] Spam-O-Matic

Well, I don't have full information on your settings to be able to really help you out.

1) Did you create a new members group and if you did do you allow for URL's and pics? Those are part of the permissions that need to be adjusted. However, if you are not placing anyone in a new member group then make sure that Newbies Manager: Put New User Into Newbies Group? is set to NO.

2) I haven't ever tried it but maybe set Newbies Manager: Promotion From Post Count
to 0 and have them moved directly into the registered member area.

To be hones you may not want to use this modification. You would probably like vBStopForumSpam. It does not have built in auto moderation, it is just for registration. It is reported to work with vB 4.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...top+forum+spam

1 - No, I did not.
2 - N/A, as I'm not using the newbies usergroup, right?

I've been using this mod for some time, and it's been extremely effective, so I'd like to continue supporting it before just jumping ship to something else.

Anyone else have some insight?

Alibass

06-11-2012 05:05 PM

@PBRiot

In vB admincp under usergroups/forum permissions/group do you have Post/Thread Permissions/Follow Forum Moderation Rules accidentally ticked to no? If you do that will put posts for anyone in that group into the moderation queue.

When you have auto-moderation disabled in SOM that should shut off any moderation of posts unless posts are being monitored elsewhere.

exportforce

06-14-2012 10:22 AM

Does that baby still fully work with VB4.2 ?

Vcize

06-14-2012 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vcize (Post 2338636)

I'm having a weird problem with this mod.

When I have it enabled, any time I try to save anything on the admin site (not just within this mod, but anywhere) it will time out. As soon as I disable this mod, the problem goes away.

Here is what my host said about the issue. Again this seems to go away when I disable this mod...

Most likely, the code within the forum is allowing Keep-Alive connections, but it looks like they do not get closed efficiently and they stay open. This bogs down Apache, as it only has a certain number of connections allowed to be open at once. Have you had a developer take a look at the code and optimize the way it handles keep-alive connections? I would start there, and if there are any server-side configurations that the developer would need in order to optimize the site code, just open a ticket and we'll get it set to whatever they need.

Just trying to see if anyone has any ideas on this.

I only notice the problem on my largest forums. I'm guessing that there are some keep-alive connections being left open somewhere in the mod, and that doesn't effect small/medium sized forums as it takes a long time for those to add up high enough to do any harm.

rigox2002

06-17-2012 10:37 PM

Hello,

Complete noobie here wondering if i could get some help I have SOM installed on my forum i am running the latest version of vB 4.2.0. I am having a issue with SOM marking some of my valid users as spammers when they try to register on my forum. These users that have tried to register have used the following email address's @live.com (hotmail) @yahoo.com and @gmail.com.

I have disabled the native spam ware on vb and am running SOM as the only spam ware on my forum.

Is there something i need to change around? how would i fix this? Is there a place to manually approve registrations?

Alibass

06-17-2012 11:18 PM

Turn off names during the SOM check. Only allow IP and email check.

blh654

06-17-2012 11:26 PM

Is there a way to add users to an 'exclusion' list or something? Some users have said they are rejected from registering and after looking at the logs it was because their usernames were common names that had been added to the spam database as spam usernames - is there a way to manually override this?

Alibass

06-17-2012 11:34 PM

Not that I am aware of. An IP and Email check are more than enough. This mod or any other mod is not 100% full proof against spammers. Checking a database against names is a little ridiculous in my book. There are just to many common domoninators.

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