Best, simplest Anti-spam tool I have found
- Thread starter Kim
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Forsaken
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If you're that worried, you really shouldn't have internet. ISP's (Especially those that offer cable services) all track and sell their customers browsing habits to encourage targeted advertising.
Unless you're chaining VPN's or anonymous proxies, there really isn't anyway for you to avoid bieng tracked in some method or another.
Kim
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LOL, clearly not me as it is a bloke
Plus.. if I was, I would never wear a brown suit with what appears to be slippers.. totally not me darling!Can we get back on topic now
Dan Cryer
Active member
Just for reference, we're primarily a web development consultancy. My day job is working within businesses helping them to improve their development teams and so on, when I'm not doing that there's also small business web site development. We do a bit of social strategy, SEO guidance and so on, but only because it is something we get asked for. We certainly don't specialise in digital marketing, or social media, though.
The Spam Service is more of a personal project of mine, I'm interested in forums and such like (I've been using and running them for over 10 years, and as Kim said, I used to work for IPS.) I'm also working on setting up ForumCloud, hosting specially designed for forums. However, as the spam service is using Block 8 technology, time and servers, it made sense to make it a service from the company.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
Dan Cryer
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Also, more appropriately, and more importantly, thank you so much Kim for your feedback! 
I'm really pleased it is working out for you so far. I'm sure you won't mind me sharing the fact that the service has, thus far (in two days, right?) blocked 500+ spammers from your site.
I'm really pleased it is working out for you so far. I'm sure you won't mind me sharing the fact that the service has, thus far (in two days, right?) blocked 500+ spammers from your site.
Kim
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Also, more appropriately, and more importantly, thank you so much Kim for your feedback!
Very welcome good sir!
LOL I can believe that given I have had to turn off registrations for the last 4 months, as prior to that, I was getting that many through who were posting the ridiculous spam bollux, which was a huge job to clean up, and ours is a very small site, but they do love to target anywhere with movie reviews and so on!!!
Shelley
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I've have/still have registrations switched off at my site for near on 10-11 months due to the spam. It was getting ridiculously that bad I really had no choice, and cleaning it up was so time consuming I was spending the majority of my time cleaning up rather than adding what is important, content. So any threads that can somehow eliminate that is always welcomed in my book so thanks again for the feedback and creating this thread with your experience using Dans Service.
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I'm glad to hear Kim found something that's working for her. I'll have to try this in few minutes here and see how it works over next few days... Thanks Kim for your feedback about it, and thanks to Dan for creating/doing it... 
I'll have to try this in few minutes here and see how it works over next few days... Thanks Kim for your feedback about it, and thanks to Dan for creating/doing it...
Kim
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I'm glad to hear Kim found something that's working for her.
Be interesting to see if you guys have a similar experience with the product! - Do post about it.
Kim
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Just thought I'd follow up on this topic and see how anyone who has installed this is getting on?
Since Kim posted this topic last week, we've blocked just over 10,000 spam registrations from XenForo-based forums.
Well, I haven't had it installed for the whole WEEK's time frame I was going to have it running alone (- no other anti-spam resources running), but it's nearing half way mark, and had ZERO spammers sign up. *knock on wood* lol. So, so far, so good here!
Kim
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Just thought I'd follow up on this topic and see how anyone who has installed this is getting on?
Since Kim posted this topic last week, we've blocked just over 10,000 spam registrations from XenForo-based forums.
Working brilliantly for me still Dan!
Kim
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I am not sure RoldanLT, I would ask Dan Cryer directly
Dan Cryer
Active member
Based on the release of 1.1.4, I'm interested as to whether people think it would be worth shutting down the Block 8 Spam Service.
1.1.4 improves Xenforo's built in spam prevention, and integrates with DNS blacklists, which may prove enough to block the majority of spammers.
I'm not going to just turn the service off now, but I'd be interested to hear opinions.
1.1.4 improves Xenforo's built in spam prevention, and integrates with DNS blacklists, which may prove enough to block the majority of spammers.
I'm not going to just turn the service off now, but I'd be interested to hear opinions.
TheBoss
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I would say " NO " leave it in place... every little bit helps..Based on the release of 1.1.4, I'm interested as to whether people think it would be worth shutting down the Block 8 Spam Service.
1.1.4 improves Xenforo's built in spam prevention, and integrates with DNS blacklists, which may prove enough to block the majority of spammers.
I'm not going to just turn the service off now, but I'd be interested to hear opinions.
Regards..
Kim
Well-known member
Based on the release of 1.1.4, I'm interested as to whether people think it would be worth shutting down the Block 8 Spam Service.
1.1.4 improves Xenforo's built in spam prevention, and integrates with DNS blacklists, which may prove enough to block the majority of spammers.
I'm not going to just turn the service off now, but I'd be interested to hear opinions.
I would like to see you continue it for a while at least, until we can be sure the built in anti-spam actually works as yours has been brilliant for me!
But I understand if it costs you to offer the service, or if it takes up time, that you would want to EOL it.
Up to you of course
Whatever you decide, I thank you again for the brilliant offering, it saved me a huge amount of headache and annoyance!!!
