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hymoo
09-13-2009, 09:26 AM
Hi, one of my forums get abused by a lot of competitors. Basically they posted spam links to new threads and they just keep coming back with new IDs. Maybe they hire paid posters to do this. I want to know if there's any plugin or something that can prevent some specific links to be posted? For example, I want when someone makes a new thread/new reply with link to "xxxxxx.com", the post won't be visible to users (or even deleted automatically). Please tell me how to do that?

James Birkett
09-13-2009, 09:55 AM
Create a usergroup and set it to have to approve every post, that way you'll approve every post they make. Then set a promotion up after say 5 posts to "Registered Users" from which they can post normally.

kevcj
09-13-2009, 07:20 PM
There is a modification here on vb.org that prevents users from being able to post links until they get something like 15 post. Just go do a few searches, you should be able to find it.

Swampfox
09-14-2009, 02:29 AM
make their domain a dirty word :D