Update:

I'd recommend that before anyone installs v1.25 of this mod, they be prepared to step back to v1.24. Once 1.25 is installed, quickly check your "mark forums read" function.

As soon as we imported the v1.25 XML and began to use the forums, we noticed that the "Mark Forums Read" function was completely broken. When members would click on that vBulletin function, it would simply clear to a white screen" and say "done" in the browser.

Since the only thing we had done was upgrade from 1.24 to 1.25 of this mod, we immediately DISABLED this mod and the "mark read" vBulletin function started working fine again.

Regards,
Badger

Installed, will report any issues. Thanks :)

Mark forums read function is working fine here on 1.25.

Have installed 1.2.5 and I still have a problem with submitting the data using the AdminCP. When i select Remove User, Remove Posts, Submit to SFS I click the submit button and it reloads the user information again.

Anyone else?

BadgerDog

functions_vbghsfs.php is from easier versions of this mod.

functions_ghsom.php is the name of this file in 1.2.5+

Anyways, this information was for the other poster who didn't upload the file, so it should not affect you.

Understood ... so can I delete functions_vbghsfs.php from my server?

Follow up ... v1.25 is NOT sending information to ADD spammers to stopforumspam.com. I've tested it several times using the AdminCP function add-on panel you provide in the users screen and nothing ever arrives and is placed in their database.

I don't know if it works through the moderation "delete as spam" function as I haven't had a spammer get through to be able to post a message.

I am able to manually go to their site and add spammers to their database.

1.25 is working to analyze and stop spammers from registering ...

Regards,
Badger

Thank you to you both. Had the same issue this morning. I dunno how I overlooked the file install.

Thanks for the quick fix!

~Brian

I've decided to uninstall this mod. After looking at the logs for the past month, I have come to the following conclusions...

• My forum rejects 9 out of 10 registration requests from spammers.
• This mod is only responsible for ONE out of those 9 rejections.
• The amount of false-positives is not worth the hassle.
• Akismet has NEVER (and I mean NEVER) returned anything other than a false positive.

The other 8 of those 9 rejections were done using a custom profile field:

• Simple Question: Are you a spam bot?
• Default Value: Yes
• Field Required: No, but display at registration
• Regular Expression: [NOno]+

Its simple. When someone registers, right before the submit button is this question "Are you a spam bot?"; with the default being "Yes". Unless they change the answer to "no", they will be rejected. This simple thing is responsible for almost all of my spam rejections.

Any bots that do get through eventually get caught by this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248560

Well, 1 is better than none I would say.

Why not just turn off the Akismet option if it doesn't work for your purposes? Is that the only thing giving false positives?

The question thing you have does work good and is a great thing unless everyone uses the same questions on their forums. The spambots can easily be trained to answer that type of question. The mods I have seen with such systems all have the same questions which sort of defeats the purpose.