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Originally Posted by skubaman

Gotta say, thanks!
In 2 days, this plugin caught 88 spammers trying to register!

I had the same result with it catching what seemed to be an extremely high number. Then I looked through the code and realized it checks the stop spam database even if the registration fields aren't validated. So if a bot submits with an invalid code or mismatch password it checks the stop spam database first. I changed the code to just let vBulletin throw the invalid registration fields error. This way I am not hitting the stop forum spam database when unneeded. All I had to do was wrap the register_addmember_process hook with if (empty($userdata->errors))

I also noticed that the cache is inserting records for the same data with a newer datestamp. However when grabbing the results from the cache it doesn't sort by date. Potentially the cached results could be around longer then the time set in the control panel. I changed this to only insert into the cache it there was not a cache hit already. This one I kind of went crazy rewriting things. pedigree if you would like I can send you the files. I want to say upfront that I am extremely picky with mods as I like to do things in a consistent way since it isn't part of the vBulletin release.