i dont filter the posts, cant see the need if joe blogs cant see it.

just wondering if theres a way to mimic a required field in the hidden option so the script readers see that and assume they have to post in the signup screen

Ohh... was just wondering if you might have just to test out the plugin and see how well (or not) it works.

Not sure what you mean.
On the registration screen you want to add a "spambot" hidden field under the 'Required' section ?
If so... ive never looked at the vB code for that, but would assume the vB code just checks the fields after they are submitted. When the require fields are visable, during the screen when a person is filling them out, there is nothing special about them. The code which checks them after they are submitted is where the "magic" is done. Could be wrong, will check it out is thats what your looking for.

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i guess having a * next to the box may trick the bots, not sure.

i will turn on the diverted post when im home tonight and we will see whats being stopped :)

Maybe, not sure eather.

If you really feel like testing it out, can you turn that on as you said, but turn off the registration check ?

Like said in the PM.
A quick day test (full 24 hours) with open forum posting (letting guests post with out being logged in) the same code used in a different forum stopped around 70 spam-bot posts. Thats with no protection period, completely open and nothing got by. Im sure the type of bot posting has alot to do with it, maybe i was hit by the dumb ones during the testing :D


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ok all setup, lets see what happens next :D

we dont allow guests to post tho so thats got to stay off tbh

uvwx993 weoskee@gmail.com
vg286031 vgoldzone20@pc1520.com

they were stopped from signing up in the past 2 days, now i wonder what the 2nd one could possibly want lol

Could i use it for vbb 3.8.0?

did Anyone do it? :P thanks.

i think this has already been added to the spam bot scripts as its no longer working :(

It worked fine till now (i dont know exactly but it's still effected with my forum), but i want to use it in my others, it's using vbb 3.8 :( dont know if it could work, anyone have the answer?

Just installed it on one of my forums which gets horribly spammed so will know pretty quickly if it still works...

Edit: So far it's working very well, moved from 50+ spammers per day to 1 or 2...and they're actual people spamming.