That permissions can be set within vB. using permissions. You can set Unregistered users to not be able to leave a post, but they can still view the blog.

let me rephrase, I have spammers STILL joining & blogging instead of posting, ALL spammers seem to go to the blog section, there have been no spam post, just spam blogs.
I see no way to turn in the spam bloggers

then set it so members cant post to the blog and make a new group that can

LOVE THIS MOD!!! HAS SAVED MY FORUM!!

But, I have a problem. I read through a ton of these pages and don't seem to see a clear response. All of my new registrants are put into a "newbie" usergroup and get moved to the Registered usergroup once they hit a certain post count.

The problem is that all of the newbie posts are going into the moderation queue, which is a giant pain in the backend for myself and the moderators. I have restricted this group to disable URLs, signatures, etc. but they are not restricted from posting topics or replies.

Help!

if you check the settings of this program you will see where to turn that off

I have it disabled already. I just enabled it and will disable it again in a bit to see if that corrects the issue. Tempted to uninstall and reinstall...

Check the settings, to turn the moderation for the newbie group off.

In the GlowHost settings or Usergroup settings? It is off on the GlowHost page.

glowhost settings

I am pretty sure I have it disabled in the GlowHost settings. Here is a screen capture showing that entire page...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2012/02/50.jpg

Would love to get this thing working...

Set this to NO
http://s3.amazonaws.com/awesome_scre...%2BpWPA0xNE%3Dhttp://awesomescreenshot.com/000th3hc0

Do not put new users in the newbies group. Your settings should not cause many posts to be moderated. IF it does send many posts to the moderation queue, then turn this off. You can use vbulletin promotions, to send users to a newbie usergroup. Configure usergroup permissions for newbie usergroup to apply restrictive permissions. Then add another promotion, to promote newbies to another usergroup if they receive more than X reputation points.

I'll try that, thank you Alfa1!

I am new to this mod and noticed today that it had placed 4 spammy posts in moderation cue. So I went to the vb ACP moderation panel. I only see one post and it is by a legitimate user with nothing to indicate spam, so I selected validate on the bottom left, then clicked save. The screen well went sort of blank, it did not show anything so I had to click the menu to the left to moderate post again and it was still there. So I did this again. Same result.

The post the user had made was a comment on an article in the CMS, so I finally disabled the mod, found the post in the vbcms comment section of the forum. Then I moderated it there and selected approve posts, still no luck, but then I cleared the CMS cache and had to rebuild the tables to get the post to show.

If I auto-moderate post, what is the proper procedure to approve them and get them to show if this happens again?

thanks

I tried to import this file in Product Manager and get the message "Invalid File Specified".
It is vB 4.1.10

Am I doing something wrong?

Update: Sorry. Was trying wrong file. My bad.

A fantastic mod, thanks very much.

Can you add the option to remove visitor messages of the spammer please?

Turn it off in the user group.

Working very well on 4.1.5 PL1, thank you!

I'm pretty sure he means that if you ban a user as a spammer you can currently remove posts, and the request is add the ability to remove visitor messages as well. If visitor messages are being added removing social group messages would be nice too.

Not Work on 4.1.10, please update, help

Not working on vB 4.1.10. :(

yes it does.i run it on 4.1.10 works fine..

Strange. I will have to reload it.

I took it out and reloaded it. I don't have these setting below a user.

GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic
You can ban or remove the user along with removing all the posts and submitting profile details to StopForumSpam.com:
Ban user
Remove user
Remove All Posts
Submit to StopForumSpam.com

Moderation Tools then you will see Spam O Matic normally last on list

I've notice that the mod prevent some real user from registration and deal with them as spammers. !!!

Any suggestions I can keep the spammers away but I can't lose users too :S

work fine in my 4.1.10 tanks a lot

http://inforsat.org

StopForumSpam: Username Check = Disabled

On our site we only have email address used for blocking spammers, and its cut down spam tremendously.

Username check is disabled on my forum, but there is a new member whose posts keep getting sent to moderation. He is a lawyer, his registration email address uses the domain of his website, and his posts don't have links in them. Any idea what I need to check to prevent this from happening to him and to other legitimate new members?

you would need to go into the sql table and remove his info as his ip, name or email has been flagged already

This mod mentions "Easy Cleanup" in its settings page - I've had some spammers that i've banned and they're not being sent to the stopforumspam database.. what exactly is 'Easy Cleanup'?

Here's how i'd normally ban someone:
Find their spam post that's in moderation.. select it and 'delete post as spam' in the dropdown.
I'll select 'delete other posts by this person' and 'ban this person' from the next page..

When I check on stopforumspam.com's database, it's showing that I haven't submitted anyone yet. I do have an API key set up w/ them and have it enabled/entered in my glowhost spam settings.

Thanks,
Rob

Check his IP on stopforumspam.com
If the IP was used by spammers, tell him that he should complain to his ISP.

in Moderation Tools pick Spam-O-Matic option you will see this at the bottom of the last post

Ugg.. i'm dumb. I've never seen that.. heh. Been using it for probably close to a year :)

Thanks,
Rob

I have had to uninstall this particular addon much to my chagrin mainly because while it's running, my users are getting an issue of not being able to post. They are receiving an error of "Your post is too short" when they try to post anything, like their post is being emptied after this mod scans the post.

Anyone have any thoughts on this as I noticed by going through posts that this has happened with a couple of folks and it goes unanswered.

What do you mean by remove his info? Delete him altogether?? I looked at three places in phpMyAdmin (glowhostspamomatic_log, glowhostspamomatic_remotecahe and glowhostspamomatic_stats), and see the info, but what do I delete or edit without nuking his account?

edit: I've discovered this note in the database regarding the member's posts: "Post put under moderation based on Akismet result". So it seems the Akismet feature is causing the problem. How do I resolve that?


Good suggestion, thanks, but nothing turned up there.

Then check the log and see why he was rejected.

if he has already registered then this does not apply

hello all, im new to this site and new to VB, i have installed this mod on our forum and so far its fantastic. but i do have a question, we have had spammers banned pretty much as soon as they enter the forum either by the system or other mods. if we have a banned member with no posts, can we "one touch ban" them? it would be really nice (for newbies like me) to have a "ban and clean" button on each members profile page. or have i just missed something?

thanks for reading, and keep up the good work,

Marc