I have upgraded to the latest and greatest VB, and I no longer see my submit to stopforum spam in the search for user section in Admin CP under the user's profile. What happened?

When I first installed this mod I have it check username, email and IP. I soon found out that even normal usernames were on the stopforumspam database so I disabled username checks. The username check is pointless anyway because with emails it is unique to someone and so can IP in a lot of cases. Whereas username is not unique to anyone.

However, having said that, I have not had a single spam bot join my site for a long long time since installing this mod. But.... and there's always a but.... I had a suspicious account register the other day and it had a .ru email. I later manually checked the stopforumspam site and the email and IP is on the database but it appeared on there AFTER it registered on my site. Then today I get another strange username register, but with a .com email. It's not currently on the stopforumspam database, but when I search the email on google I found it on another forum where it registered yesterday with a different but again odd username so I suspect it is also a spam bot.

So after all this time I now start getting spam bots register.

I like the sound of the "bad behaviour" and "VSA advanced permissions" mods. I might check those out.

This is the best fricken thing EVER to be offered for vbulletin. Absolutely amazing. In the last 16 hours (since I installed it) It has prevented 212 people from registering, allowed 47 people to register, and after hand checking all 47, only two were spam. Amazing. Sending donation now.

This mod, used in combination with the geographical ip prevention is wonderful. I can block all of asia. My life is back to normal again!!

To the people who say their worried about blocking legit people, I can only say that I don't care. Spending hours a day filtering through new registrations vs having a few legit people per day blocked is not even a question of being a problem for me.

it is great ,having it since it was available ,amazing to see how it is working ,loving to browse true the logs ,lots of .ru spam last months
but im glad this mod is here ,its one of the best mods for VB

I have two suggestions based on the SMF mod that uses StopForumSpam's database to filter spammers. The SMF version as I recall had another option besides just deny or allow registration on match.

I would suggest a third option...allow registration and put the regsitrant in the moderation queue. Also, if the database can't be reached for whatever reason a similar approach should be taken to ensure valid registrants aren't tagged as spammers just because they couldn't be checked.

As a note I am impressed with the fact that this mod still works on V4.1 considering no updates for quite some time. I would be willing to donate if the mod could be rounded out and provide more options on how to handle things.

There is already the option of allowing registrations if the database can't be accessed.

Can anyone confirm its ok to install in VB 4.1.1 ?

Thanks.

You can, but the facebook integration does not work.

Try Spam-O-Matic as an alternative which has a few more features and works in a similar fashion.

Pedigree and the StopForumSpam website say that the mod in this thread is no longer being developed.

cheers for the info, as i had a bot sign up tonight that's listed about 10 times on the stopforumspam website, and everything had been running sweet till now, only by chance that i checked it out.