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Anyone else getting a huge influx of bots, even with this enabled?

They mostly just fill out their profiles with advertisement links, never actually post, so we can't report them to the database.

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Originally Posted by ElfenLied1337 (Post 2287512)

Anyone else getting a huge influx of bots, even with this enabled?

They mostly just fill out their profiles with advertisement links, never actually post, so we can't report them to the database.

India mainly, one after another. If that country didn't have so many IP ranges I'd ban the whole place. The mod Stop the Registration Bots works better than glowhost spam-o-matic for these guys.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=244746

Be sure to hide the member list from non registered users and disable the homepage field.

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Originally Posted by Webbstre (Post 2287494)

I think maybe I made my post confusingly... one of my users is being moderated when he shouldn't be, and it's really annoying to have to keep approving his posts when looking at my settings he should be exempt 3 ways already.

you can put an ignore on the user, just place the userid of the person you want it to ignore

Hi guys,
I just installed vb 4.1.10, and was editing the video attachment settings, hit save and got this error...

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Database error in vBulletin 4.1.10:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE vb3usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Registered Users',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = '',
`opentag` = '',
`closetag` = '',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`forumpermissions` = '12317183',
`genericpermissions` = '1579685575',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '150',
`pmpermissions` = '3',
`pmsendmax` = '5',
`pmthrottlequantity` = '0',
`calendarpermissions` = '63',
`wolpermissions` = '1',
`adminpermissions` = '0',
`genericpermissions2` = '1',
`genericoptions` = '62',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '100',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '100',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '100',
`avatarmaxheight` = '100',
`avatarmaxsize` = '20000',
`signaturepermissions` = '498943',
`sigpicmaxwidth` = '500',
`sigpicmaxheight` = '100',
`sigpicmaxsize` = '500000',
`sigmaxrawchars` = '1000',
`sigmaxchars` = '500',
`sigmaxlines` = '0',
`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
`sigmaximages` = '4',
`sigmaxvideos` = '1',
`albumpermissions` = '255',
`albumpicmaxwidth` = '600',
`albumpicmaxheight` = '600',
`albummaxpics` = '100',
`albummaxsize` = '0',
`usercsspermissions` = '191',
`visitormessagepermissions` = '63',
`socialgrouppermissions` = '247671',
`maximumsocialgroups` = '5',
`groupiconmaxsize` = '65535',
`akvbghsfs_akismet_permissions` = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=2;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'akvbghsfs_akismet_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Monday, January 16th 2012 @ 10:28:16 PM
Error Date : Monday, January 16th 2012 @ 10:28:16 PM
Script : http://www.my-domain.com/forum/admin....php?do=update
Referrer : http://www.my-domain.com/forum/admin...&usergroupid=2
IP Address : *.*.*.*
Username : me
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.8

does anyone know what this is about?
TIA

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Originally Posted by ElfenLied1337 (Post 2287512)

Anyone else getting a huge influx of bots, even with this enabled?

They mostly just fill out their profiles with advertisement links, never actually post, so we can't report them to the database.

I've been using Glowhost combined with this mod which works well to
prevent new users (bots or real ones) from creating links in their profiles or anywhere

(Extra Spam Protection) Prevent Posting Of Links On User Group Per User Group Basis
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=243925

For those of you who can't pull up their logs, I had renamed my admincp folder. Make sure the file glowhostspamomatic.php goes in that folder.

Looks Great thus far. One change I made was in the Give thanks. The default text of "Web Hosting" is a bit generic. Now reads "Spam-O-Matic provided by GlowHost.com" on our site.

Any plans for a paid version? Sorry I have not read through the hundreds of posts :-)

we installed this mod on our forum which is 4.1.10 suite when I activate it locks all users from posting including me. is there something I am not setting correctly?

show screenshot of settings

Spam-O-Matic: Protect Users = use ids not names
Akismet: Enable = yes
Akismet: Post Count = 0
Akismet: API Key = get key from http://akismet.com
Akismet: Auto-submit from Easy Cleanup = yes
StopForumSpam = Username Check: Disable
StopForumSpam = API Key get key from http://www.stopforumspam.com
StopForumSpam: Auto-submit from Easy Cleanup = yes
Newbies Manager: Newbies Group ID = 4 this is normally 4 you have it at 17 do check that
Newbies Manager: Auto-promote Users From Newbies To Trusted/Registered Users? = no
Auto-Moderation: Minimum Post Count = 1
Easy Cleanup: Enable = Enabled
Affiliate System: Enable = Disable turn this off as you dont have a Affiliate ID
Affiliate System: Link text = leave blank
Credits: Give Thanks = no

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Originally Posted by Dialsoft (Post 2289207)

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screenshot 1 is wrong put iserid's not usernames

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Originally Posted by simonhind (Post 2289312)

screenshot 1 is wrong put iserid's not usernames

if you check my above post you will see I already said that

i made all changes that you recommended when you try to post it still does not function.

have you checked user group permissions

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