[TommyC]

Originally Posted by TMH63

Just in the past few days I've had people contact me that are trying to register and they are not spammers.

I'm going to have to disable this and find something out it seems.

I've been experiencing the same problem the past few days as well. When looking at the vbStopForumSpam logs, it will frequently show an "Allowed registration" message yet the user account is non-existent. Sometimes the users contact me and complains, or sometimes the users try and try again, and I'll see the same "allowed registration" message multiple times (with different timestamps) until eventually the account is actually created.

The dead giveaway that there is a problem finalizing registrations is with the spam bots and their method of changing their email address and/or IP address. When I look at the log I'll see the same spam username getting the "allowed registration" message numerous times, all with different timestamps, different email addresses, and different IP addresses. So this would confirm that the user is attempting to register, being allowed to register, but then something goes wrong.

On a plus side, the mod is still working in the sense that I still see users being rejected based off of the stopforumspam queries.

EDIT: Question. If a user fills out the registration form, and enters the captcha wrong, doesn't enter a password, or makes some other error on the registration page, does this script still query stopforumspam? If so, my original assumption that this script is malfunctioning may be wrong, it's very likely then that some of my users are failing to fill out the registration form correctly which would explain the numerous "allowed registration" messages as they try to fill out the form.