[Barteh]

Originally Posted by techtir

It's only rejecting spammers with gmail address. We have plenty of real members with gmail addresses.

A recent tactic of US spammers seems to be to get a fresh Nigerian Human to sign up. We see the IP is Nigerian and do nothing. About 5min to 15min later the 1st post comes, a large advert for phones etc from a US IP, often with new email addresses to send the order to.

If it's a cable or Fibre IP, then the user IP doesn't change much. So then we add those posting Emails and original email to VB's own blocked emails list (in case in future Stopforumspam is down) and then add all the IPs and Emails and user names to stopforumspam.

I'd like to see this mod add blocked or banned IPs & email, (i.e. no matter if registration was successfull or not) to VB's blocked list.

I already made one tiny change on the addon reporting script so the Report to Stopforumspam box and button doesn't appear unless the user is Banned user group (Change NOT admintrators group to EQUAL Banned Group). That submit button needs to simply update the Blocked IPs and Banned Emails settings visible in VBoptions userBanning, two SQL statements)

Easiest way to deal with this is both a reCaptcha protected 'contact us' form (which iirc is automatically referred to when people are unable to register because of banned email addresses) and a moderation queue for new users.
vBSFS keeps out the vast majority of spammers (say, 999 per 1000 attempts at least), so you'll only have to deal with possible human spammers on occasion, assuming you have enough people who can authorise new users of course. You might want to install the ModCP moderate new users plugin as well, helps share this load with your supermoderators and thus keeps response time to a minimum.