Thread creation rate-limiting hack

[mute]

Well, my forum was being spammed by a lot of idiots who felt the need to create a large amount of threads, and generally disrupt the flow of our bb.

I knew I could rate limit their posts, but it wasn't so much the posts that bothered me (they were easily pruned), but the irritation of seeing all those new threads until a mod could delete them all.

I decided to rate-limit it so users could only create a certain number of threads per hour.

Drop me a line if you find this useful or have an problems!

-Kyle

[Xenon]

please enter the installation into a txt file and attach it to your post instead of posting the instructions.

that way pirates can't use your hack

thx

[mute]

all set!

[assassingod]

Cool hack, but im confused;
Is this a limit for a user, or for all users?

[mute]

This applies to all users, except for moderators.

What happens is, these kids register accounts, get validated, wait a little while, then post up a bunch of crap (sometimes several people at a time).

We IP ban and ban accounts, but they are using proxies and yahoo accounts, so as you can imagine, its a bit hard to prevent.

Our board doesn't allow guest posting, and for all we know, any user could potentially could be a "spammer", so I've been forced to limit everyone..

[assassingod]

Cool;
Hehe, this hack is a neat little way to prevent things like that - Thanks

[Dean C]

Sounds like a practical hack. Good idea buddy :)!

- miSt

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Xenon
please enter the installation into a txt file and attach it to your post instead of posting the instructions.

that way pirates can't use your hack

thx

they shouldn't be allowed to see this forum then.

[Brad]

Originally posted by Sebastian


they shouldn't be allowed to see this forum then.

We are not ganna go into this again are we? :rolleyes:

Guest can view this forum so they can check out what hacks are out there before they buy vBulletin, so if everyone puts their hacks into .txt/.zip attachments then no one has to worry.

[Areku]

/me licks install!!

[mute]

eww! :laugh:

[mute]

Posted a small change which would fix a stupid bug on my part, it just changes the one line.


Change

$lastthreads=$DB_site->query("SELECT dateline FROM thread WHERE dateline > UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-3600 AND postusername='$bbuserinfo[username]'");

to
$lastthreads=$DB_site->query("SELECT dateline FROM thread WHERE dateline > UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW())-3600 AND postusername='".addslashes($bbuserinfo[username])."'");

[Boofo]

Excellent idea. Is there a way to add a setting that you can change in the Admin CP? ;)

[mute]

I suppose there is :)

I'll look into how everyone else did it, I took the easy way out because I didn't feel like touching the database at all (aside from adding the template), but I'll see what I can do.

[Dean C]

Here you go Boofo. To work with admin options simply go to forums/admin/setting.php then add a setting to the relevant group - it generates a qury and it allows you to work with a variable which is an option when creating the setting ;)

Then this variable with its value (e.g. 5) can be used throughout every php page which includes global.php :)

[Boofo]

Thanks, Mist. ;)

[Dean C]

Your Welcome Boofo ;)

_ miSt

[Mathiau]

Can this hack be made some people can only post some many times ina CERTAIN forum? as opposed to the entire forum? and have the time extened to say a person can only post twice in 24 hours (from their first post) in Forum A - but can post all they want as often as they want in Forum B?

[mute]

This hack is now obsolete, please check out the new improved version of this hack @ https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54596

-Kyle