Ok the way that our antispam works is through www.akismet.com
There are now 2 usergroups, members and members upgraded. When you register you are put into the members group and all your posts are scanned by akismet. If akismet thinks it is spam them it is put in a moderation queue until a mod approves or deletes it. Once you get 5 legitimate posts you are upgraded to members upgraded and your posts are no longer scanned.
VERY cool . Which version from their site works with vbulletin? I used to run a hiking forum, and maybe as a parting gift (recently sold it) I can hook up the owners with this nifty tool .
That does sound pretty cool. There are a lot of very odd posts in the off topic forum which look like spam but don't contain any links (yet) makes you wonder who these people are and what their agenda is.
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There are now 2 usergroups, members and members upgraded. When you register you are put into the members group and all your posts are scanned by akismet. If akismet thinks it is spam them it is put in a moderation queue until a mod approves or deletes it. Once you get 5 legitimate posts you are upgraded to members upgraded and your posts are no longer scanned.
-Aranyic
I see there's php libraries...
You actually just install it from the plugins area of the admin panel