The spam is real.

[Xiph]

@xbenjii said:

@a_5mith said:

@bentael, any chance akismet can be trained to look at the topic title as well as the post content. Current spam is only in the title. Whether the title is included in post content or something like that.

Could it be something as simple as changing

comment_content: data.content,

to:

comment_content: data.title + data.content,

As the title could be considered a top-level header, how about we add a couple newlines?

comment_content: data.title + "\n\n" + data.content,

[bentael]

@a_5mith

Not really, at least Akismet API does not have anything to do with a title, http://akismet.com/development/api/#comment-check

however, I just combined title + '\n' + content to get sent to Akismet

An embarrassing thing i just noticed, is that the spam-be-gone plugin is only listening to filter:topic.reply so all the topics creation are not getting checked because they fire filter:topic.post

@julian, @a_5mith opened my eyes that Akismet was not checking new Topics creation, only topic replies, so I added it

I just published [email protected] that fixes this issue.

[bentael]

@Xiph i think you and i were typing at the same time. I just did exactly what you suggested. thank you.

[Trev]

More spam digests. But, on a positive note I've found an excellent practitioner of black magic in Mumbai.

[Trev]

Tried to post here, but nothing appeared? (after confirming email).

Edit: now the posts are showing.

[julian]

The latest spam-be-gone from @bentael should hopefully stop them once and for all!

Cautiously optimistic...

[Ralkage]

It was all a matter of time

[a_5mith]

@julian In before they just start sending chat messages with it in.

[julian]

@a_5mith How long were you going to let me keep calling it "Askimet"?

Found out today it's spelled Akismet. *facepalm*

[riteshsanap]

@julian

even i used to make same mistake when spelling Akismet, but once I made a plugin using Akismet for WP, i started using correct spell

[a_5mith]

@julian said:

@a_5mith How long were you going to let me keep calling it "Askimet"?

Found out today it's spelled Akismet. *facepalm*

Askimet
Marinator.
It'll be NobeDD next.

[a_5mith]

@julian said:

Found out today it's spelled Akismet. *facepalm*

Have you turned it off? Or have they circumvented everything.

[Justin]

@a_5mith Have you seen the new upgraded "No Captcha"?

Link: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-no-captcha-recaptcha,28161.html

[julian]

We're using the new ReCaptcha, but it didn't seem to work today

[a_5mith]

@Fgdd-Sfgg said:

@a_5mith ㅠㄹ호

Pi 2 man drowning?

[psychobunny]

Sigh, what sucks is that all of us are away from the PC until tomorrow. Perfect day for the captcha plugin to stop catching the baddies

[Ali]

@psychobunny please do. They took over the forum.

[Jenkler]

It would be nice with a setting for new users. Unable to post on the forum until X days have gone! Does that feature exist ?

[psychobunny]

Yup, in ACP settings -> posts

[shri]

A couple of points for you guys to consider. First time poster here, But I manage some large forums that rank for lots of high value keywords.

Our line of defence on vBulletin is as follows:

1. Registration - Passed to StopForumSpam (this allows us to gauge the threat of the email address used and the IP address used).
2. New users are not allowed to post links - configurable post count.
3. Posts are passed to Akismet to gauge their spam levels.

Even with this, we still get hit every now and then with manual spam from SEO agencies in various parts of the world - some parts of the world are worse than others. For those we use broad CIDR bans at the firewall levels.