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Old 05-01-2010, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by kfrosty View Post
FYI, I've had this installed about a week and I don't see any change in spam registrations. I've even set it to High and still getting the same amount of registrations.

Our community is relativity small and setup for users in a small geographical region.
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Originally Posted by Mastergumble View Post
Weird i didnt got even one spammer on my vb installs at all and one board was spammers paradise...
It's not really weird at all. The add-on depends on a database of spam reports from other forums. If kfrosty's forum appeals to a small circumscribed geographical forum, it is probable that many of the spammers s/he is attracting are not in the more general spam database. Remember that NOT being in the database doesn't guarantee that the new registrant is not a spammer.

I don't think this add-on is really designed for such a forum. You are probably further ahead using other options for minimizing spam, including:
  • requiring admin moderation of all new registrations
  • using the built-in Akismet antispam feature to route posts with certain keywords to the moderation queue
  • using Valter's add-on to prohibit live links for new members below a certain number of posts
  • using banning by IP address for those who slip through
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