If you are using bbpress the bbpress system gets the request before the stop forum spam plugin. Otherwise the spammer was able to register before they were reported to SFS. Also the plugin will allow spammers in who only have one offense or are not recent spammers.
Make sure you clear the cache on the Spam History page so that spammers will recheck.
Keith
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Tigr
(@tigr)
Ah, so if a spammer was listed back in March, now he has a chance again? How interesting. That would explain things.
No, I am not using bbpress.
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Tigr
(@tigr)
Although, no, here is a guy reported yesterday several times and he managed to register today:
http://www.stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/31.192.106.144
Is there a lag between submissions on SFS and the time we see the IP address appear in the search?
Another thing, you say on the front page that user registration does not keep an IP address but mine does on WP 3.8. So it would be great to have a button “Report to SFS” in the list of users too. It is quite a bit of work to copy the spammers to SFS manually every day.
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Tigr
(@tigr)
Here, again. The IP address 220.161.169.83 has been reported on 10-Nov-13 twice. Today the same IP registered 20 accounts on my blog. What could be the problem?
The spammer passes the tests. You must clear the cache on the history page and blacklist him to keep him off your site.
Keith
This IP has 1000 entries on SFS, yet they were able to submit a comment.
http://www.stopforumspam.com/search.php?q=89.67.195.78
I’ve been noticing this recently on multiple wordpress sites where comments are submitted but they’re listed on SFS.
SFS occasionally goes down. It is also constantly under denial of services attack. If a spammer sneaks in once when SFS is not being responsive, he is put on the good cache and then bangs away at your site.
I clear my cache every day, in fact I am thinking of adding a little function to remove ips from the good cache after a few minutes. This would force the plugin to check again when a spammer tries again. even if they were approved just a few minutes before.
Keith
Thread Starter
Tigr
(@tigr)
Great to have the “report to SFS” button in user list! Thanks a lot! That makes my life a lot easier. Can you also remove the IP in question from the good IP cache?
That will have to be the next time that I find time to work on the plugin. I have a list of things that I need to do and clean up the user functions is one of them.
Keith
