I also want to chime in and thank you for this fantastic mod.

When recaptcha was cracked a couple of weeks ago, my (very new) forum was bombarded by spambots. It was relentless. This mod has stopped them all cold.

Just to add my thanks also. Just installed it on 3.8.5, with modified admin & mod cp folders and it works flawlessly.

I tried to sign up with the email address of a known spammer and it blocked it. Signed up under a test account, tried to post some spam, it placed it in the mod queue. Made a good post and it was fine, made a post with a link in it and it placed it in the mod queue.

Fantastic! :)

Awesome mod...it killed 19 spam registrations just yesterday and 7 today :D

I installed this on a new VB site (VB 4.0.6), and it installed okay, I uploaded all of the files, and everything looks like it should work, but nothing actually takes place. I have other sites that use SFS, and I have tested it before where I find a spammer on SFS, use their username and password, and it will not let me use it, and when I go look at the log files, it has entries of my action in there. This one has nothing in the log files.

Does anyone know of something that I might be doing wrong? I have API keys in both of the SFS and Askismet, so that does not seem like the problem.

Hi, I just installed today and see 4 registrations blocked already in the log within 10 minutes.

My question is, how can I test the system for all its options that they are working?

Reason I ask is that I registered a new account to watch it, then I went in the forum and created a quick post with just a link and a short sentence. The options say it's supposed to block posts with links if they have a post count lower than 5 and move it into moderation. This didn't happen and my test post was left alone with the link in it.

Just wondering if there is a way to test these features or do I have to create new accounts over and over? Either that, or tell me why the thread and post was left alone when the options say it's not supposed to allow links.

Any help would be great! Thanks.

Also I know it was mentioned that this doesn't work well with other anti-spam plugins, all I have is the recaptcha turned on, should that cause problems?

Hey great job with this Mod!

I do have one suggestion, and I apologize if this has already been suggested...

I think there should be an option when viewing the log to sort by IP address. Currently, there is only the option to sort by date, username, and email. It'd be useful to sort by IP address, and here's why: I'm looking through my MASSIVE log of blocked spammers (only had the mod installed for like 2 days, and I've blocked about 40 spammers...unbelievable), and I believe if there is an IP address being used MULTIPLE times on my site, I should just block that IP address. However, I can't tell by looking at the log how many times a given IP address has been used. Does that make sense? I'm not a big programmer myself, so I don't know how easy this will be, but I also think it'd be useful if the "sort by IP address" started with the ones that had the most entries. Make sense?

Very useful and practical mod! Much appreciated; keep up the great work...
Joe

Also, I did discover a bug...

In my logs, there is one entry that under message, I get a "found in Akismet database - held for moderation." Only, there is no user in the moderation queue. Additionally, the corresponding link returns a 404 error, because the link has /admincp/modcp/moderate.php etc. The link is valid if /admincp/ is removed and it's just /modcp/moderate.php etc.

But, even if I do this manually, it directs to the POSTS moderation queue instead of USERS moderation queue. But, again, even if the link were correct to the Users moderation queue, it wouldn't matter... the user was not placed in moderation queue.

Awesome mod, keep it up!

will this work with 4.1.1?

Yes, it does.

thankyou for the reply. i am installing it now.. :)