UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads Bug Reports Stop Forum Spam not stopping spam

I upgraded from 7.5.4.2 directly to 7.5.8 for my tiny community. It's been getting hit hard with spam at times, and I was hoping the new version would help.

I have the registration queue turned off, captchas on, test connectivity from stop forum spam showing green, and spam settings set to auto with message.

With all this, I still woke up to 2 spam messages on the board today, from users who showed bad IP and e-mail with stop forum spam.

Is there some sort of logging so I can tell if they show bad only due to being reported after registration? If this is the case, would be good to see a future enhancement also run a spam check the first X times the user tries to post.

Is it possible people are getting past if just their IP, or just their e-mail is marked bad? If so, how do I ensure people are blocked either way?

This unfortunately escalated this morning, enough that GMail returned 550 errors trying to deliver the "report spam by user" e-mail to a number of my moderators. Basically GMail classifies the spam reports as spam now, because enough have been sent.

I get these at UBBDev all the time, and one thing I've noticed is that it's commonly users that you can identify self registered to spam (as opposed to being a bot). Keep in mind that SFS works by users reporting spammers then they come up as flagged after so many reports; so it's entirely possible that someone wasn't listed as a spammer when they registered and are now listed after they've done their drive by's.

The latest build of the UBB should check both ip and email.

I've had bulk sets of users register and just not post as well, and they'll come back at a later date to spam.

I have a mod at UBBDev that detects users via the login screen, so every time they login it does a check.