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Mate I disagree with your statement BUT it looks like he has the issue fixed.

had this fix a few posts back on post 1790

1 - No, I did not.
2 - N/A, as I'm not using the newbies usergroup, right?

I've been using this mod for some time, and it's been extremely effective, so I'd like to continue supporting it before just jumping ship to something else.

Anyone else have some insight?

@PBRiot

In vB admincp under usergroups/forum permissions/group do you have Post/Thread Permissions/Follow Forum Moderation Rules accidentally ticked to no? If you do that will put posts for anyone in that group into the moderation queue.

When you have auto-moderation disabled in SOM that should shut off any moderation of posts unless posts are being monitored elsewhere.

Does that baby still fully work with VB4.2 ?

Just trying to see if anyone has any ideas on this.

I only notice the problem on my largest forums. I'm guessing that there are some keep-alive connections being left open somewhere in the mod, and that doesn't effect small/medium sized forums as it takes a long time for those to add up high enough to do any harm.

Hello,

Complete noobie here wondering if i could get some help I have SOM installed on my forum i am running the latest version of vB 4.2.0. I am having a issue with SOM marking some of my valid users as spammers when they try to register on my forum. These users that have tried to register have used the following email address's @live.com (hotmail) @yahoo.com and @gmail.com.

I have disabled the native spam ware on vb and am running SOM as the only spam ware on my forum.

Is there something i need to change around? how would i fix this? Is there a place to manually approve registrations?

Turn off names during the SOM check. Only allow IP and email check.

Is there a way to add users to an 'exclusion' list or something? Some users have said they are rejected from registering and after looking at the logs it was because their usernames were common names that had been added to the spam database as spam usernames - is there a way to manually override this?

Not that I am aware of. An IP and Email check are more than enough. This mod or any other mod is not 100% full proof against spammers. Checking a database against names is a little ridiculous in my book. There are just to many common domoninators.

D'oh, stupid me. I completely forgot to check the settings and I realized all the tests were set to 'on' - my bad, sorry about that!

Just added this to 4.2.PL2

Let's see what this puppy can do!

How do I manually revert a rejected registration and allow the user to proceed?

I got this:

Spam-O-Matic Tagged username - Sneakers - Spammer Found and rejected.

How do I know the detailed reasons why it was rejected?

run this query
UPDATE `glowhostspamomatic_remotecache` SET `is_spambot`='0' WHERE (`field`='username') AND (`is_spambot`='1') AND (`data`='Sneakers')

and disable username in your settings so this wont happen again

make sure you make yourself superadmin from the config then go to AdminCP > Statistics & Logs > Glowhost Spam-O-Matic Logs
if it was his name first check on the spam o matic forums make sure he is not a spammer check his ip and email as well and only run the query if he is found to be a real person

AdminCP > Statistics & Logs > Glowhost Spam-O-Matic Logs

In the log you can see the reason why they were not allowed to register. 95% of the time it is the user name that is rejected, that is why we suggest you turn that feature off. Occasionally an IP address may be the culprit. You can double check this information if you like, but sometimes legitimate users may be using RIPE Networks, which I would say 99% are spammers. If this is the case, then you will have to manually register them. The log gives you their IP, e-mail, and username. that's enough for you to get started, then when you send them an e-mail include the link to their profile and ask them to complete the information.