Anti-Spam Plugin Installed

[yash101]

For my site, I just erased every member (because they had no data in them anyways), and then installed the plugin. This plugin is the first defense, after which Askimet catches the rest of the spammers that get in. One nice thing is that you can report a spammer to their database, so that every forum using their plugin can know about that new spammer!

The only stats I get on the plugin I use is the number of spammers it has stopped. It might be different for the plugin that has just been installed.

[DarrinMunter]

First thing this morning when I got on here, 3 spam messages. - up to 4 now.
How hard is it for them to change there IP address to get around this plug in?

[Invictus3593]

This is great!

Good job guys!

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Munter2081

First thing this morning when I got on here, 3 spam messages. - up to 4 now.
How hard is it for them to change there IP address to get around this plug in?

Yeah, there will still be some spam, but hopefully this will ease up on the amount of threads the moderators have been dealing with.

1400 registrations denied since installing this last night.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

1400 registrations denied since installing this last night.

How many were allowed in that same time period ?

And, is there an appeal process in place for the false positives ?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Ether

How many were allowed in that same time period ?

And, is there an appeal process in place for the false positives ?

22 registrations allowed through. If a user is rejected, they're told why and given a way to contact me to get registered.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

If a user is rejected, they're told why and given a way to contact me to get registered.

Excellent!

[yash101]

Wow. It seems as though it is Woking better than expected!!! It should use the ip address to find who is spam!

[JohnBoucher]

Brandon,
Are they signing up and then vetted or will it not even allow the signup? Which ever it is it's working

[yash101]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

Brandon,
Are they signing up and then vetted or will it not even allow the signup? Which ever it is it's working

Stop Spammers, if that is the plugin that is being used, will prevent signups, by redirecting the spammer/spambot to a fake register page. That way, they will get tricked.

Here's a link to the plugins: http://stopforumspam.com/contributions
This is the one that I use: http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-sp...ations-plugin/


EDIT:
According to the plugin page (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176481), it just denies the request, but does not create a fake signup page.

[protoserge]

Outstanding. We are all appreciative of a reduction in spam.

Great work, Brandon. Thanks for suggesting a working solution, Devyash.

[yash101]

Wow, there was quite some spam that just got in! Is there any second defense like Askimet? I never get any spam through because if SFS doesn't stop it, Askimet will remove the post!

[Brandon Martus]

All users already go through an initial period where all of their posts are filtered through Akismet.

[nathannfm]

Wait, so what do you have against team 180? :/

[yash101]

I noticed that you are using the forum's built in capatcha (letters on image, to read and type). Have you tried reCapatcha? It reduced my forum spam by 75% by itself! the built in character generation sucks, because it is possible to OCR it easily! Just keep rotating the frame until it shows up as an actual alphanumeric letter. Also, adding special symbols, like #,$,@, etc. can stumble many spambots!