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Submitted by Taiga-san, 3rd September 2010, 3:28:34 AM

Before I start some notice: My English isn't very good but I try my best. Please ask if something isn't clear and be patient please.

Every board owner - no matter what software he use - has the same problems: Spammers registering at his site with malicious/scam/spam/phishing links in his signature/website field or spamming the whole board with threads and posts containing those links.

Some of us using the great modification to prevent registrations from IPs/e-mail-adresses which are reported as "spammer" on stopforumspam.com (I will call it SFS from now on) but of course, that isn't enough. There's always a spammer which isn't listed on that (very great) site. What do we do with those accounts? Some of us may report them but most of us just ban them which helps nobody.

So here's my idea: Implement an API-client for SFS where users can prevent registrations from known spammers ( like in this mod http://mods.mybb.com/view/stopforumspam-com-for-mybb ) PLUS a link somewhere where administrators can automatically ban AND report those spammers to SFS. I think this would make MyBB a bit safer, help the whole SFS community and all who use this site and encourage more administrators to report the spammers.

At the moment I use a self-coded script which shows me the registered accounts (50 each page) with the fields uid, username, email, regip (linked to nwtools to do a lookup), website, signature and checkbox with which I can mark them and by clicking the submit button report and ban them.

I hope you think about it because SFS is really a good site with a growing database of forum spammers and it would help us admins a lot :)