The site that I have this plug-in installed on is a low-traffic, very specific board, and all registrations are moderated. Once a year, we turn off the moderation for a short burst of high traffic, but watch the registrations carefully. (running vBulletin 3.8.3)

The module works extremely well. As the StopForumSpam database builds, the number of registrations that get through continue to drop. I'm now seeing one every month or so that get through, and as many as a thousand that don't.

With that said, I would like to advise all of the folks that are installing this, and having difficulties, to please take the time to troubleshoot the problem, and provide some detail when you finally post here with problems.

I "hear" the frustration in Pedigree's "voice" when you come on here and say "it's broken...what's wrong with your program?" This is definitely a case of PEBKAC

Sorry...this isn't the place for me to sound off, but I'm a programmer too and have to deal with the same stuff...:( Pedigree, I give you two-thumbs-up! :up::up:

Yes thanks :)

Fustration, oh yes. The amount of PMs I get that are "I installed it and it doesnt work - why?" are increasing and they all come down to one of one things

1. The person hasnt read any of the documentation or used the "search" in this thread and have installed it incorrectly
2. Arent using the required version of mySQL, php or cURL.

and of course, expect the database to be 100% accurate, up to date and purged of old spammers. The later we are discussing but there is functionality in the mod to ignore old spammer fields.

I have had to uninstall it from 2 sites for blocking people registering after verifying the problem myself. Tried with 3 different email addresses and had others try also. All were using either ip providers email or yahoo, msn, etc.

Would you like to provide the usernames/ip/email addresses so that we can verify this?

Please people, you must understand this

The database WILL provide a tiny amount of false positives known as "back scatter"

Its the same as a spammer using your email address as the "from" source when spamming millions of people. You will get the bounces. Same thing here. If a forum spammer uses an IP address on an ISP that trunks everything out a proxy server (ie AOL) or from an IP address that you happened to have been assigned when you dialup, then that IP address is listed.

Simple solution

- Dont block on IP addresses.
- Configure the mod to IGNORE positive results older than 30 days.
- Set your forum NOT to block registrations if our database is not available

Functionality was been provided, please use it. Again, please dont just post "It stopped working" without providing logs or details, youll just get ignored. If you would like some help and support, its a two way street.

My ability of telepathy only works within 10 square miles....

We are very disappointed!

Thanks again for this great hack.

This works like a charm! Thanks so much for writing this.

It would be nice to see this checking against project honey pot as well.

I searched the thread but could find no clues.
If I get a 404 Not Found page when I click on the vbStopForumSpam Log in the A CP..
does it just mean that no spammer has signed in yet so that is why there is no page created therefore not found?

Thanks

website is

http://gaga.com/

I receive about 20 spam registrations per day between my two Vb installations despite all of the other spam prevention mods I have installed. I am installing this today and will report back on this mod in a couple of days.

Fingers crossed.

UPDATE..

There was afile missing from the install..

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