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Originally Posted by Phaedrus

What happened to the selection in the User Profile area in the Admin CP? I have a ton of spambots that don't post, but use the forum for backlinks in the member pages and I'd like to be able to easily remove them and report them at the same time. I mean, it is clearly just as "spammy" to register just to create a backlink to a male enhancement site which has nothing to do with our forum. I wouldn't care what they put in as their home page if they contribute, but allowing backlinks for free with no writing contributions?

This one is one of the favorite questions that people like to ask. The short answer is it will be re-introduced in a later version.

Originally Posted by Delex

Hello,
just instaleld and seems to work pretty good, congrats and thanks How can I check all my already registered users/bot trouigh this plugin? I have 90% of registered users that are bots.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Abunch

Just installed it after getting about 50 spammers in the past couple of weeks...I can see the flood coming.

Is there any way to back-check all the accounts so I don't have to do it by hand?

This is a bad idea. This one has also been answered as well. The problem is the SFS database has a limit to the number of queries that you can do in a day. if you exceed it, you will get banned, possibly permanently from using their service.

While we could make something like this for smaller boards with less than 5000 members, large boards would need some really nice scripting and a cronjob to do the lookups in batches. That's a lot of code and a lot of support for a free mod. The other problem with this idea is that many boards are very old and have members that are also very old. Submitting that kind of data would likely produce a lot of invalid bans because whatever IPs were spamming say, 5 years ago are likely not doing so now and that Ip has probably been recycled to a legitimate web user.

The idea behind Spam-O-Matic (and most firewalls) is it blocks fresh known bad-guys, and over time, the bad-guys eventually fall off the list. Submitting stale data is not so nice.

So, it is not as simple as it seems at first glance, and probably will not be implemented except if someone needs it on a custom basis we might consider developing a custom version for someone. But it would be a paid mod due to the support involved.

Originally Posted by It's Damn Real!

Any way to hide the "Spam-O-Matic Statistics" from regular users? Ideally I'd like to have that information only viewable by Admins and Moderators.

No, but that is a nice idea. I guess if people really want this we can add it based on popularity of the request.