vB.org hit by spammers!

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Not wise. Those settings must be loaded and parsed on every page load of your forum. With a handful of entries it's no big deal, but leave that on long enough and hundreds of IPs will turn into thousands, and then tens of thousands... Eventually you will exhaust your PHP memory limit or MySQL packet limit- but well before then you'll see noticeable slowdown of your site.

The vBulletin Ban IP box, or any mod settings is not designed to hold thousands of entries.

The best solution would be to regularly output a text file of IP addresses and have some way to block them on the server level- before vBulletin or even htaccess is accessed.

I purge it once a week and submit to Project Honey Pot.

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Originally Posted by kh99

Edit: There's not much point in us going back and forth about this - if you think this site doesn't do enough to stop spam, that's your opinion. Mine is that it's only a problem for the people who are looking to make it one.

Who's looking to make a problem, a problem? It IS a problem. It's been the bane of message boards since day one and the defeatist attitude of "no matter what you do there will still be spam" is a big part of the reason why. I'm just too militant about it I suppose.