I just installed this last night to my recently upgraded 4.1.3 board. Everything looked fine and then a member tried to post and got this message;

Warning: require_once(includes/functions_ghsom.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions_newpost.php(443) : eval()'d code on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_ghsom.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /includes/functions_newpost.php(443) : eval()'d code on line 5

I turned off this plugin and now members can post. I am new to running a board like this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

@ EDCPunk - See this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=792

Awesome. Thank you for the heads up. I will try that and see if it works. :D

OK. The .php file is in the Includes folder. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

OK, it is fixed. The file was not in the right "includes" folder on the server. Thank you for the help with this.

Just wondering. The below lines appear at the bottom of our main forum page, the represent the entire 5 days Spam-O-Matic has been online on our updated forum.

15 Spammers Denied Registration
66 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated

Two questions:

1. Prior to Glowhost we used vbStopForumSpam with results of around 250 spammers per day rejected. Why does there seem to be such a big difference with only 15 rejected/denied registration in 5 days?
2. The 66 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated... Where on earth do they go when moderated? we can't find them anywhere and I have mods who are going stir crazy because they can't find then to delete.

My guess was they are being automatically reported then banned but we don't know who, what, where or when they were banned.

Maybe we're missing something. All I can say is I'm getting a bit of a laugh from it as it's messing with the brains of a couple of my moderators.

Cheers - Neil :D

PS Excellent mod, I love it. Saves a heap of time and gives me great enjoyment watching mods and admins chasing their tails trying to figure out where the moderated posts have gone.

Look in your ACP on the first page. there you will see on the right side at the top. messages needing moderation. Just click that and you can see all of them.

Thanks for the reply camoit.

Moderating them isn't a problem, we know where moderated threads/posts reside and how to moderate them been doing it for over 12 years. The problem is that the numbers mentioned of 66 don't show anywhere and have never appeared in Moderation that any of my moderators or administrators have seen. They seem to be phantoms, untouchables, unfindables. Gone without a hint they ever existed.

Cheers - Neil :)

OK so no one seems to want to satisfactorily answer the two questions in my previous post. Let's try another.

This is part of a post I made at vBulletin.com (full post HERE) So far no response to that one either.

I currently have an instances where one new member (spammer from China) has been able to register his username twice within 1 minute. He then proceeded to do 3 spam posts and then went on to changed his email address in second registration.

First registration was deleted as spam and reported to Stop Forum Spam after he had posted.

The second registration was then banned by moderator.... However it did not show as banned in his profile, but did in Banned Users list, whilst the first registration does not show up in the Banned Users list at all.

Today this person appears to have registered again. Different username, same IP address different email address.

Still shouldn't have got through Spam-O-Matic his ip is 220.179.121.198 and can be found in a search at SFS. There must be a glitch somewhere to allow this to happen.

We do have Name Check disabled in Spam-O-Matic for obvious reasons, as we had in VBStopForumSpam prior. Still I would think it shouldn't let a banned IP through though.

Cheers - Neil

There's a timeout setting. If your site cannot contact the StopForumSpam site for a certain period you either allow registration or deny it. In this case it seems that this may have been the cause of your spammer getting through with a tagged IP. I can't be certain without reading the stats, but that is the most likely culprit.