Stop Forum Spam moderating users with normal first names only

[NealC]

Seems like Stop Forum Spam is putting anyone that registers with a typical name such as "David" "Mark" "Steve" into moderation. Very weird that they are triggering just on a name. IP addresses are stateside and not an issue hence approved.

 

[Paul B]

The names are in the SFS database.

You can make a judgement call when accounts are moderated on name only - in most cases it's a false flag.

 

[StarArmy]

I think this is an expected behavior since those names are being used by spammers, too, and then reported by the other forums using StopForumSpam.

On my forum I put anything that is flagged into the moderation queue instead of denying it for low flag counts, that way I can make sure there's no false positives.