I’ve installed a plugin that checks new registrations against a database of known spam IP addresses, usernames, and email addresses. Hopefully that will help a little.
Thanks to yash101 for the plugin suggestion.
Thanks Brandon! as always!
And Yash too!
We’ll see if it works. I sure hope it helps
Thanks. However, it will only protect against new spam users. The old ones will remain, there to be manually discarded.
Oooh goody, the spam was starting to get a little thick.
PS. Here’s a spam thread to get rid of:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=121543
91 new accounts already rejected … seems to be working, so far.
Wow. Is there any way to find out how many of the 54,569 user accounts would have been rejected?
Could you to save these stats somewhere, and make a graph of them some time in the future (once you gather enough data)?
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.
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?
This is great!
Good job guys!
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.
How many were allowed in that same time period ?
And, is there an appeal process in place for the false positives ?
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Thank you Brandon and yash! Glad to see an improvement.
22 registrations allowed through. If a user is rejected, they’re told why and given a way to contact me to get registered.
Excellent!
Wow. It seems as though it is Woking better than expected!!! It should use the ip address to find who is spam!
Brandon,
Are they signing up and then vetted or will it not even allow the signup? Which ever it is it’s working 
They change their IP, post spam and are reported to sfs. Every other forum knows if it it’s being spammed, then!
Hey Brandon,
If any spam gets in, just press the report button to allow the database to be updated.
Sorry about the typo
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-spammer-registrations-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.
Outstanding. We are all appreciative of a reduction in spam.
Great work, Brandon. Thanks for suggesting a working solution, Devyash.