Just a heads up, I must not have subscribed and missed these posts, sorry. I have an upgrade ready to post, it automates some stuff but works the same. So everyone is still safe.

BTW, since I installed this I have had maybe two or three bot attempts. I have had so many in the past few days, it's scary. But NONE of them got through to register. :)

awesome, dude. thanks for the great mod!

I like to say there's always more than one way to skin a cat. This is one way. There are others, but I prefer this as it's transparent.

Thanks for the kind words.

It seems everyone is having the same issue lately as me.. several registration bots are popping up each day on my forums, lol.

Was very glad to find this, and have installed it without any issues.

However, I do have one question. For now, I have the second part still at 15 (which I guess is default) what settings do you find the best? Should I lower it to 10, etc?

Awesome mod.. thanks!

I wonder how to make sure the mod actually work? I installed it but would like to see something that let me know there are spammers who want to register but got blocked?

I have only gone a low as 12 myself. An update coming will include JavaScript to tell the user how long they have to wait to hit submit.

I thought about displaying the time real hard and don't think it's an issue.

If a spammer gets caught, you get an email to webmasteremail. In my experience I have found it best for all three vBulletin notification emails to be the same. But that's another thread about getting the mail through.

I have also updated this modification to note that it will work on vBulletin 3.6.11.

I was going to ask if this mod would email me if a bot was stopped, like isBot does, but it didn't take long to find out! Great job... Thanks!

Giving it a go...

Yep, and you can submit the offending email address to spam databases with the information emails.

Good to hear that this is helping.