I agree, but let's say you have a competing site: competingsite.com

If they were frequently spamming you, you could enter the keyword and other variations to automatically ban anyone who uses it. It could also be used to auto-ban those who use racial slurs or use words you prohibit in the rules.

Yes, there are certainly benefits to it. In your described case though, I'd still take additional percautions. I have had people coming to my site and first thing thy said was something like:
If you do add competitor site to your keyword list, I'd recommend giving it some flexibility (ie: allow two occurances in post before it trigger moderation, and three or so before it trigger reject).

As mentioned, I'll look into coding an auto ban level during the weekend coming up, and update this again :)

PS: I'm considering a further "profile" system where we can create different sets of keywords/weights, so we can target spam better; but one problem I can see is if we add too many sets of profiles, the math required will probably take more CPU time... Any opinions on this, anyone?

Sorry, just reporting in that I had a very busy weekend so I did not got around to work on this during the weekend. I will try to allocate some time aside this weekend for this.

hello Andy..

This is one of the bestest spam preventing mods I have seen till now and it works perfect on my 3.7.3 PL1 board. Wonder why it has so less installs.

I think people like to stay away from mods that have a BETA tag to them. I hope you remove that BETA soon please :)

Thank you

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry to everyone as I have not had a chance to update this because of development works... I have something similar (and hopefully even better) in the workings... stay tuned :)

This is not working for me at all in 3.7.4

Created a regular member called test (zero post count) and attmpted to post based on the keywords. I posted Nokia about 10 times, post went through fine.

Moderate Threshold Score is set to 5
Reject Threshold Score is set to 0
Spam Scanning Post Threshold is set to 5

Not sure why it is not working for you. Works more than great for me on 3.7.4.

Try setting "Moderate Threshold Score is set to 50" as 5 is tooo less. And try posting a real spam post, search for it.

Does this work okay on 3.8.1?

The hooks for that haven't changed, I think you should be okay. Though, I don't honestly recall which version is the up most version number I've defined for this. If it tells you that your version is not compatabile, then you can try to edit the xml to get around the limitation, and then install it. In the worst case where it doesn't work, just uninstall it ;)

Great mod - works fine on 3.8.1 PL1