More solutions here,

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...ick-reply-made

can't believe this plugin hasn't been updated for 18 months, yet it still seems to be working generally ok ..

wondering if there's anything that could be done about recent spam posts that seem to be in other languages (besides English) ? Some of them have weird lookin characters as well, not even sure if it's a language or not.

but we should be able to prevent those somehow... no ?

Yes for the most part you are going to have to set up a new user group for new members, limiting permissions and setting up auto moderation in S-O-M. The are instructions on the creators site. Very few get through the block, but selecting the post and using the mod tools you can ban, remove all posts, and submit info to stopformspam at the same time.

I have nothing negative to say about this mod. I admit its probably my skin causing some sort of issues I used this mod in the past and it worked fairly well. as of now i went to Keycaptcha and its working very well.

To each his own however I hate key captcha. My registration is simple using a picture mod by BOP5. This mod blocks 99% of spam. However you do have to set it up correctly, as has been explained in this thread many times. Most with problems using this mod do not take the time to set it up correctly. It does take a little time to set up and test!

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Earlier today, I saw on my forum that 208 people were online with my IP address. What kind of problem is this and what can I do about it.

I use SPAM-O-MATIC and have a subscriptiion to Akismet, and whatever was going on didn't effect my forum with spam.

On 8/29/12, I had 1,172 people online, of which I know was impossible, being that we are a new forum, although, no problems with spam then.

According to your product, there have been 4 spammers denied registration.

Thanks, Bryce

I already have that usergroup for new members.

Still would be great if they could update the plugin, to give us an option to block all posts from other languages. These are practically the only posts that still make it through the filter on our forums.

example : Block all posts not in "English". (drop-down menu to select appropriate language)

not sure how difficult it would be to setup on the developer end though..

Bruce, just for grins disable S-O-M to see if you still have the same problem. I don't think that this mod is the problem, but the only way to know for sure is to test it.

Being a new forum I see that many visitors as almost crazy but if you are using forum runner then it is possible. I did a quick Google search but your forum wasn't on the first page. As far as multiple users having the same IP that I see quite a bit, so how many are you talking about?

I'm sure that if you had a mod check for language it would take time for each post to be scanned before it was submitted to the forum, this would really slow things down. That does not include things like "CUL8r"!

The important thing is to submit these spam messages when they happen. This mod is great for doing that for you. I even get a few from time to time, but not enough for me to break a sweat. The other option that you have is to ban the e-mail and IP in vB. That may help because I believe what you are seeing is Russian.

You wrote, "As far as multiple users having the same IP that I see quite a bit, so how many are you talking about?"

I don't know how to answer this question. I read at the bottom of my forum that there were 208 users online, I clicked on the highlighted in red, 208 users online, and was directed to the page that reflects the IP address for each user. All were my IP address.

Also, I could see that each forum had a number of people reading posts.

You say to turn off s-o-m, to see what happens, what would I then do to protect myself from spammers on my site at that time.