It all depends on if we win Mod of the Month this month or not :) In any case sometime after the 1st of Oct

Ok great ;)

Maybe Im not understanding it correctly, but what about profile / blog spammers? We get quite a lot of them, as they are trying to avoid the required post count for posting links. Would be good to report them to stopforumspam when we ban those spammers.

We will probably add functions for this in a later release but chances are they are not going to make it into the blogs or profiles if you place them in the "New Users" group which requires a certain amount of legitimate posts before they are moved to the registered users group. The Registered Users group may or may not have blog or comment permissions based on your settings.

Your New Users group (Newbies) should not have profile or blog options available to them, and should have a very limited feature set.

Once they have proven their worth, they graduate to registered users. What you do with them from there is up to your personal configuration settings in vBulletin.

Profile fields are very useful to identify valid signups. Problem is that spammers will fill these fields with spam links. Blog can be restricted by usergroup settings. Profile fields are part of registration.

Try the new 1.2.7 that I have put up on the main download page. This should resolve the issue for most (hopefully all) of you.

PS Mod Of The Month Votes are needed!! We are about 7 votes behind the leader. :)

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249712

Please cast your vote in the poll if you like this mod!

When I click submit user to StopForumSpam.com in the users profile in the AdminCP, then I go to the website and look in My Spammers, they are not listed. I have the right API key, is there something else I need to do?

Your best bet is to ask that question on the StopForumSpam.com website. They have a forum in there that may have the answer or you can surely ask them if there is some delay before the results become available when submitting details via the API.

This is their response.........
From our point, no, a correct API is all you need but youll need to ask the author about the rest, on the vbulletin thread as I dont think he comes here too often.

So, they are throwing it back to you.

I don't run their website so I have no idea where it goes after you submit it. I just know it ends up in their database. They might be doing something like not displaying the results immediately to conserve on server resources, but they will know the answer for sure.

Try to submit some garbage user that you have made on your forum, then try to register again with that address after submitting it to SFS, it should be detected by the SPam-O-Matic firewall when you try to register again.

But for the sake of keeping this thread on topic, please post the URL to your thread on their forum so that others with the same question can get the answer. I will post over there and try to get a better answer as well, once I have the link.