Anyone have the code listed in the first post to submit data, clicking on the link brings up invalid link.


For code to submit spammers to the database, check this post for code changes
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...&postcount=288

Also looking for this. Have spent over an hour reading forum posts trying to find a valid link to something that shows how. Frustrating. The software works brilliantly so having this last bit of information somehow hidden is sad.

Well, of course, we all knew to look at page 69 in this thread and the post by JesterP. :)

There's the answer.

Couple hours short of 24, this has stopped over 400 in their tracks. Couldn't be more pleased! Here's a minor modification I recommend that helps the daily ritual of approving users and involves a minor edit to the user.php file. This is for those requiring the user to validate their email and then the admin manually approving:

We're running this on 4.1.0 PL2: line 1754 in user.php (may vary slightly in different versions), replace their mailto link and the following line that tells the IP (never figured out why we'd want to mail someone from the final approval process) and their not very useful IP check and instead point those to Google so you can see where those email addresses appear, and the IP to a decent WhoIs lookup. Most of my spam registrations come from Phillipines, Vietnam, Malaysia, India and my site is topical for something not practice there so this makes it super easy.

Of course every time you upgrade this will get wiped, but it's an easy change that really adds some value. YMMV. I'm shutting up now, happy.

<a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com" target="_blank">www.stopforumspam.com</a> seems to be down - anyone else having issues?

Thanks

Yep, I just started seeing DB Errors, but not sure what's causing it.

Yup, its been down for the last hour. Got the same errors, think its timing out when trying to get on stopforumspam site while its down.

hi,

Yes that site is a little slow but i bet that site get's allot of traffic if i could talk to the owner of stopforumspam.com i would ask him/her if i could help in mirroring it's content i'm on a dedicated server i have gigabytes of space left offcource since it's a spammers blacklist i think the site is often the "target" of online attacks like (D)dos or similar please correct me if i'm wrong.I would provide a mirror for free just to join the fight against the spammers :D

Ive been using this mod since VB4 came out and was also using the previous version for vb3, However i have to say its now been removed from all my forums.

Ive seen alot of increases in emails of which genuine users are complaining they can not sign up, this has been the case for some time however ive always just replied to their emails asking them to sign up with a different username and that seemed to work.

However recently i was working on a clients website and he had it installed , he said that he gets around 4 complaints per day all from genuine users, so i thought i would run a little experiment and disable it on a couple of boards for a couple of days, in those days ive seen much better conversions and a much higher posting rate from new members, Also those members have returned and are becoming very good posters. Also the time on the site for each person is much higher .

Spam has not been an issue since disabling this mod , i run the mod "bad Behaviour" and also "VSA advanced permissions based on Post count" basically meaning they can not post links , images and email addresses until they have 20 posts. With these two alone i have had zero spam.

I thought i would write this quickly as ive always loved this mod but there is seriously something wrong when it blocks SO MANY potential members

Were you having it screen for user name?