Automatically decline user accounts by keywords

lordmaynoth

I had to disable captcha, some bot figured out how to get around it and spam my forum to swiss cheese. That was fun.

Now each day I have 100+ requests from bots trying to sign up with this exact message:

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{I want to {see new threads|follow the discussion|be part here|see new additions|access all parts|contibute|say something|reply to a thread|reply to a user|message a user|contact a user|read everything}.

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It would be really awesome if I could mass decline users by keyword automatically.

whu606

@lordmaynoth‌

Welcome to the community.

Luckily for you (and me, and a bunch of others...), the very awesome @peregrine created this:

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/registrationrestrictlogger-plugin

which does exactly that.

I would also recommend using this with http://vanillaforums.org/addon/botstopapproval-plugin

peregrine

thx. whu606 for the kind words.

@lordmaynoth
you want might to add to this link with your problem and then if you solve it you can follow up.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/24785/poll-which-registration-method-and-plugins-do-you-use-to-deter-spammers-and-their-efficacy/p1

and these might be worth reading as well

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/207684/#Comment_207684

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/196127/#Comment_196127

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/189892/#Comment_189892

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/199731/#Comment_199731

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25403/spam-attack-how-to-deal-with-spammers

lordmaynoth

You guys are awesome, works great!

Thank you very very much.

peregrine

@lordmaynoth said:
You guys are awesome, works great!

Thank you very very much.

If you want to help others besides yourself...

you could ad what you did to solve things (if you do) here...

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/24785/poll-which-registration-method-and-plugins-do-you-use-to-deter-spammers-and-their-efficacy/p1

lordmaynoth

Done. Thanks

peregrine

@lordmaynoth

thank you for your donation for the http://vanillaforums.org/addon/registrationrestrictlogger-plugin

much appreciated.

always great to get a donation, when someone sees the plugin made their life maintaining forum easier.