[Torqued]

I periodically will run usernames and emails of new registrations to my site through google. I've caught a few spammers that way.

The SpamBuster addon is great, BUT...

You still have to go in and clean up all the moderated SPAM messages.

What we *really* need is a way to stop messages from being posted at all if they have spam terms in them. I've been "archiving" most of the spam that I've been getting, and if we had a separate "censored words" list that would block the message from posting instead of just *'ing out the words, it would eliminate over 95% of the post spam that I'm getting.

As I get new spam, I add the obvious keywords that would not be used on my forums as well as the domain names to my censored words list. I'm finding that I'm getting fewer and fewer spam messages posted that don't have at least one of the censored words in the message. If only I could simply block those messages from being posted at all!!

I've made the above suggestion in the SpamBuster thread as well as over at vBulletin.com (here and here)

I think this type of functionality would really make a significant dent in both bot and person posted spam.