Does the Stop Forum Spam option work in VB5?

[fenderbob]

I've had a major uptick in spam registrations over the past 2 weeks. Maybe my site got added to some kind of list?

Anyway, I already use re-capcha and I wanted to start using the Stop Forum Spam feature also. I tried doing a search on it here to see if there was any prior discussion on it, but I couldn't find any.

I registered with Stop Forum Spam and got an API key. I put it into the Spam Settings area of the adminCP. However, I'm wondering, does this actually work in VB5? If I have it enabled, will it in any way interfere with the normal sign up procedures of VB5? I don't want to block new people from registering if there's a bug with this.

The reason I ask this is because while I seem to have it enabled, I have no idea if it's working. There is this message in adminCP:

In addition to handling registration, suspected spammers can be reported to the service via the Inline Moderation Delete Posts option.

Pretty neat if it worked, but I tried deleting messages both from my admin account and a mod account and no where did I see any option to report the user info to Stop Forum Spam. Does anyone know the answer to this? Thanks.

[plongeur.com]

Hi,

Can someone form vbulletin answer this question ?
I would have the use of this option but it seems to be yet another "ghost" option of the AdminCP.

you should really clean up this mess...

Best regards.

[Mark.B]

Yes it should work:

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[plongeur.com]

well, il this case i owe you an apology and i am sorry.

Yet it does not seem to be working for me, or did i do something wrong in my setup ? (i masked the key but it is good).

[plongeur.com]

I did some testing and it seems to be working at registration.

The user i tested got the message below which is not very clear but it is no big deal.

[Wayne Luke]

You need to have an API key from StopForumSpam for the option submit to data to that service. Your screenshot shows an empty API Key option.