how to get Spam-O-Matic API Key?? thru your forum??

When I mark post as "validate" (if it was incorrectly marked as spam), does spam-o-matic post it as ham to Akismet database ?

I'm having the same issue, where the post count of the set user in RSS Poster is not being honored. Letting you into the admincp would do little to help correct or debug this issue, but I'll dig through the code and see what I can find.

My speculation is that the RSS Poster Robot does not load any information of the set poster such as their post count.

The only work around that comes to mind is to modify Spam-O-Matic to verify the post count variable and if null, to get the post count from the userid itself.

Duplication is not hard...

1) Set up an RSS Feed with the following.
--- http://news.google.com/news?q=news&output=rss
--- Username: Anyone who has high post count and should NEVER be moderated.

2) In Spam-O-Matic Settings.
--- Auto-Moderation: Keywords -> Add "news"

3) Wait.. Anything with "news" in it will be put into moderation.

If this does duplicate the problem. Yay. Fix it.. :D
If not, let me know and I'll put up a dev forum and make sure that the problem is happening so that you can have full access and see exactly what is happening.

Spam-O-Matic doesn't have an API Key. Akismet and StopForumSpam have keys, you can get those on the associated websites.

No, that would not make a lot of sense I guess. If it does, it would be a bug to report. The only time users are submitted to Akismet is:

A) If you have submission enabled in your S-O-M settings.
B) If you delete posts as spam.

Thanks for the documentation. I will try to get this tested and figure out what the deal is.

Submitting spammer data to Stopforumspam.com won't work.
What to look?
thanks,

I'm having the same problem with all my RSS feed threads being moderated (all S-O-M versions including 1.2.8).

I have Akismet switched off in Spam-O-Matic.
RSS threads generated are being moderated on every occasion. Almost without exception, none of the words in 'Auto-Moderation: Keywords' appear in the thread.

Here are my settings for one of the RSS feeds:

Feed is Enabled: Yes
Title: BBC News Asia-Pacific
URL of Feed: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/asia_pacific/rss.xml
Check Feed Every... 30 minutes
Maximum Items to Fetch: 0

Search Items for Words Only: Search Item Body: checked
User Name: (An Admin User with 500+ posts)
Forum: (A selected forum)
Allow Smilies : No
Display Signature: No
Convert HTML to BB Code: Yes
Title Template: {feed:title}

Body Template:Post Items as Threads: selected
Post Icons: (one icon selected)
Make Thread Sticky: No
Moderate Thread: No
Thread Action Delay (Hours): 0
Unstick Sticky Thread After Delay: No
Close Thread After Delay: No
Post Items as Announcements: not selected
(last two announcement options n/a)


Relevant Spam-O-Matic settings are:

Auto-Moderation: Enabled
Auto-Moderation: Minimum Post Count: 5
Auto-Moderation: URL Count: 0
Auto-Moderation: Post Action: Moderate Post


Hope that helps.

Regards

A separate issue and further suggestion:

In functions_ghsom.php, the modcp directory is hard coded twice:

Line 317: "../modcp/banning.php?do=banuser&u='.$user['userid'].'"
Line 562: "modcp/moderate.php?do=posts"


Many people opt to change the name of their admincp and modcp directories. Without altering the code above, they'll get 404 errors when the above lines are executed.

Perhaps 'modcp' should be replaced with something equivalent to:

{$vbulletin->config[Misc][modcpdir]}



Great mod by the way. Got my vote last month. :up:

Regards
Paul

Great mod.

Thanks for the detailed information maokaang

I have not been able to get any RSS hits on the 2.0 beta version that we are testing but I am going to plug your settings in there to be sure.

Thanks for the vote and kind words. I will also look into those hardcoded modcp URLs.

Any word on release of 2.0? Very interested in trying this mod, but I was going to wait until its' release.

1.x is bomber. Try it out.

...or what?

Should I release 2.0 very buggy beta?

I would like to.

Does anyone want this unsupported mod?

One way for us to try it out. lmao. and for those who dare to install it.

OK, thanks for the feedback. I am considering release of SOM 2.0

I would like to call it SOM 2.0 VBB

Who wants it?

Hello,

Thank you for a wonderful product. It's reduced my workload tremendously.

One issue: the reporting function does not seem to be working. I have reported 10-12 spammers using the reporting function in the admin panel, and none of these have showed up on my reported spammer listing on StopForumSpam.org. I have double checked my API key and it is correct.

I'm running vBulletin 4.0.7.

Get this fixed and I'll give you 10 thumbs up and 5 stars! :)

Lisa Ridley
MWUsers.com

AFAIK that is a bug on the SFS site. The data is making it into their database from what I have read. You might ask them on their forums why you do not see it in your profile on their web site.

this seems to e an excellent mod , except pending on external website is so risky , what if the website is down ? then nobody can register ?

If their website is down you can choose what the script should do, which is either block the registration or allow it per the settings in your Spam-O-Matic admin.

I love your plugin but there should be an option which can ignore Auto-Moderation for admin's and moderator's threads and replies. I'm using the vbulletin's rss import option which imports rss feeds to forums and I have created a username "rssrobot" and asigned to those imported feeds. Your plugin send those posts to moderation because of those posts have links in it.

'rssrobot' username have administrator privilliges and it still being sent to moderation.

We need a fix for this problem so I can re-enable your plugin and enjoy. :)

Sorry for my bad english. :)

Great addon, I just have 1 question. I currently test this on vbb 4.0.5; I try to use 1 of the spammer e-mail to register. How comes I still able to register?

The RSS thing is fixed in 2.0, your English is perfect. :)

Sounds like you need to have a look at your settings, something is misconfigured.

Thanks for replying my message so fast. I re-look (lol) the settings; e-mail checked against stopforumspam database is being able. I dont know if that is the misconfiguration you looking for? And just fyi, many spammers have failed to register when I check the statistic.

So you have an email address that you found on stopforumspam.com, and you try to register with that address, and then it lets you register? What does the log say about that?

It says "Passed StopForumSpam checks. Sent to vBulletin Registration System."

Well, if the email check is enabled and it passed, then it probably means the email is not in the SFS database.

Do the logs show any other spammers that were tagged by email?

yes, there are emails and ips fail to register.

I am not sure what that would mean then, perhaps SFS is not responding to your request and you have "allow registration" set if the communication fails.

Yes, "allow registration is abled. But whatever, it stops tremendous spammers on my board now. Thanks anyway. Marked as install.

You might test if your server is able to communicate with SFS by setting the option to disabled then trying to register with a spammer address. I just tried bestmymail2010@gmail.com on our forums and it was blocked.

2010-10-21 16:27:20 xx.xx.xx.xx yutryutryutrutrtr bestmymail2010@gmail.com Spam-O-Matic Tagged email - bestmymail2010@gmail.com - Spammer Found and rejected.

Working fine on 4.0.8

Installed this on 4.0.7 and I tried to do the old fashion ban and delete thread and it now says:

Warning: require_once(includes/functions_ghsom.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_dm_user.php(1853) : eval()'d code on line 3

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/functions_ghsom.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/canibea1/public_html/forum/includes/class_dm_user.php(1853) : eval()'d code on line 3

vmail (confirm email before registration) was also a real live saver in regards to spam and fake accounts being created. It prevents many fake registrations on my boards.
Unfortunately this hack is not available for vb4.

Please consider to add this function to Spam-o-matic.

AFAIK vBulletin does not need a mod for email confirmation, its already part of the basic install.

Had an extremely quick browse through this thread, there seems to have been 1 or 2 problems especially when the mod was newer. Is it more stable now? What current bugs/conflicts are there? Does it work with 4.0.7?

This could be the answer to my biggest vB problem! Looking forward to your replies

I am running it on 4.0.8 and it works great for me.

I am having an issue, where an Administrator with thousands of posts is having his posts put into moderation mode for having too many url's in it.

I have my moderation settings set to:

Auto-Moderation Minimum Post Count = 5
URL Count = 0

Don't know why the issue. I tried it from my account and my post was also put in moderation.

Any ideas?

Does it affect all admins or just this one?

The difference is that the usergroup 'members awaiting email confirmation' has two different functions:
1) in the registration process. These members can be spammers or real members.
2) members that have already confirmed their email in registration, but their email account became inactive. These members are not spammers.

Problem 1: PM spam
Group 2 can have difficulty with their account and you want them to be able to contact staff to ask for help.

Group 1 should not be able to send PMs, because then they may send spam by PM.

Problem 2: Profile spam
Then there is the issue of profile spammers. Allowing users to register an account, without confirming their email address (vbulletin does allow registration even when the email confirmation function is on) in fact allows those same users to fill in profile fields, website link, and signature. So in short: profile spammers do not need a valid email address to add links to your site.
This is why there are so many vbulletin profile spammers.

You can solve this by changing the registration process and let users go trough email validation first, before they register an account. If the email is not validated, no account is created and users do not have the possibility to spam their profile, signature, website field or send spam PMs.

I installed your mod but it seems to need more checks IMO.

I was hoping to find some way to stop bots or a custom check, but didn't at all......

This mods only checks against a database, but would be cool to check the time it takes for the registraton, like "if registration time is less than 15 secs then deny".

I had this with Stop Bots Registration mod but it doesnt work on actual versions... would you consider adding some filter in the registration process?

Thanks a lot