[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

Again, it is up to you to make sure that any app you install in your forums is safe and or you take any extra measures to stop spam.

I have installed Tapatalk on several forums which I have set up for friends and family and none of them have this problem. You can't expect an app that is free to do everything for you.

You say this is a security flaw, but any forum or site can experience huge amounts of spam accounts without having this app installed, but how is that a security flaw? What is it putting at risk that forums or sites that don't have this app installed isn't?

The problem is not a security flaw but a spam issue, two very different things ...

Look my friend..

You can be a Tapatalk booster all you want, but we are also entitled to our opinion...

With all of the vBulletin add-on measures we've installed, we've had virtually no spam for many many years, because registrants have to go through vBulletin process...

It was only after installing Tapatalk, did we start to see spammers using Tapatalk's weak registration system (except of course if you pay the monthly fee), start posting spam again to our site. We know it's from Tapatalk's registration process circumventing around vBulletin's, because every spammer who does this ends up with the phrase Using Tapatalk added to their signature field. Nothing like building in free advertising for their product without telling either the web site admin or the user signing up.

Pretty funny in a bizarre sort of way ..

Anyway, enough said and my point here was to warn vBulletin admins that when they install this product (unless they use the paid version), they are automatically agreeing to let Tapatalk permit registrations outside of their current VBulletin installed method.

We raise it here, because Tapalk does not mention that fact when you install it or in their documentation... perhaps they should?

Thanks for your feedback and counterpoint ... :up:

Regards,
Doug