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Originally Posted by SteveMoody
I used to use https://www.stopforumspam.com/ on a small forum several years ago. While it didn't stop all the spam it did seem to cut it down quite a bit.
They do have a module for vBulletin 3.8 available but it's marked as legacy and is not under active development. |
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Originally Posted by RCK
This is interesting! It's also used by xenforo by default.
I have added the plugin to check every new registration with vbStopForumSpam database, let's see if it reduce the fake account
If it's not enough, we will activate one kind of "new member validation team" mission.
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Originally Posted by Ian
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I would say that it's been quite successful so far
Ok, a few "manual" spammers have infiltrated but that's always going to happen...
From my own personal perspective; I'm only having to ban / remove 2 - 5 per day as opposed to 10 - 20
..yup, it's still early days though.
Other GMs, what's your *spam* workload been like?