Too Good. I have just installed it on my forums.
Good Job :)

Jimbo - thanks for the replies. I wasn't up to speed on forum moderation, and now I see that I only saw the thread because I was logged in as the Admin. --Thank you.

Again - great work! This will be flying off the shelves as soon as everyone else starts getting hit with the bots - like me :confused:

No worries. To be honest I'm surprised that more people haven't installed it. Perhaps the configuration part of it is a bit off-putting. It'd be good if people shared rules on that they've added to their config and found effective.

Hello UK Jimbo! This is a great hack, thanks for releasing to public.

suggestions:

- add a link into the spam report email which approves the post when clicked
- add some instruction text to the created post something like telling mods that it's invis now and they need to approve it to be visible...

Thanks, hopefully this will stop some of the people that have been spamming my site. If I find more rules, I will share them.

Only just seen these suggestions

The first one is a great plan - I'll look into that for a fugure release.

The second one is something you could do in the templates.

Great hack. One suggestion/request though.

Could a rule be added that flags IP ranges that can be set in the admincp? So if a spammer (or any previously banned user) who posts from the same IP address keeps trying to post threads on the board under different usernames, I would be alerted to it? Blanket IP bans can affect innocent users, so I tend to avoid them. Being able to flag IP ranges with this hack would allow us to investigate every possible duplicate user on an individual basis.

Surre - I'm having to put development of this on hold for the moment but it's a good idea and will be incorporated into a future release.

Thanks!