Possibility in drastically lowering spam

Nightfall
Nightfall Posts: 10,086
edited October 2013 in The Clubhouse
This is an add-on for vbulletin version 4 and later. Maybe Ken can pass this on?

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248042

About Spam-O-Matic 2.x:
Spam-O-Matic 2.x (SOM) is a spam firewall for your vBulletin Forums version 4.x and later. It prevents known spammers from registering on your forums. If they can't register, they can't spam!

How It Works
This data responsible for blocking user registrations comes from the stopforumspam.com (SFS) spammer database. After the user who is trying to register passes the built-in vBulletin registration checks which you have configured in your vBulletin settings, SOM then checks the SFS database to see if the IP, username, or email address that the user is trying to register with has been recently tagged as a known spam source on other forums around the Internet. Also can be configured to check the Akismet service for known comment spam.

This is without a doubt, one of the most important mods that you will be using on your forum.
afterburnt wrote: »
They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited October 2013
    Statistics from another forum I'm on.

    Spam-O-Matic Statistics
    28540 Spammers Denied Registration
    7 Spammers Permanently Banned
    7 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
    7 Spammers submitted to Akismet
    645 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Phasewolf
    Phasewolf Posts: 514
    edited October 2013
    I should rather it hook into the NSA data base find the location of the spammer and fire a ICBM at the target then there is no need to use a block list ever again. Think of it as a one shot kills all option.
    Absolute corruption empowers absolutely.

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  • nguyendot
    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited October 2013
    Phasewolf wrote: »
    I should rather it hook into the NSA data base find the location of the spammer and fire a ICBM at the target then there is no need to use a block list ever again. Think of it as a one shot kills all option.

    Problem is they're probably coming from botnets on unsuspecting victim's computers.
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  • Phasewolf
    Phasewolf Posts: 514
    edited October 2013
    Well then well kill off all the users that should not have a computer win win to me. I have fixed more of those users computers just to have them undo what I had done because they know better then me.
    Absolute corruption empowers absolutely.

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  • DracoAmericanus
    DracoAmericanus Posts: 112
    edited October 2013
    I second that option as well :) Launch in 3..2.......
    There is no cure....
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,779
    edited October 2013
    Phasewolf wrote: »
    I should rather it hook into the NSA data base find the location of the spammer and fire a ICBM at the target then there is no need to use a block list ever again. Think of it as a one shot kills all option.

    Ohhh, Angela... oops.

    ;-)
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited October 2013
    I'll pass this along to the IT folks at Polk. Thanks!
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