In the vBulletin Options - where exactly is up to you to decide :)
I'd most likely place it in Censorship Options.

your saying add the name flagwords to the Censorship Options without the {} and save it and edit functions_newpost.php
and that should do it?
or please show an example of what your saying.....

whats throwing me off is you said create a new setting

Yes, create a new Setting:

Open the Setting/Option Group where you want it to appear and click Add Setting.
See screenshot.

Please note that debug mode must be turned on to add new settings.

where do I turn on debug.... thought I knew but guess not

in config.php

The bold below causes a file error when adding a thread

Warning: strpos(): Empty delimiter. in /includes/functions_newpost.php on line 313



if (!empty($vboptions['flagwords']))
{
$found = false;
$lcpost = strtolower($post['message']);
foreach (explode(' ', strtolower($vboptions['flagwords'])) as $flagword)
{
$found |= strpos ($lcpost, $flagword); [U] }
if ($found) {
$post['visible'] = 0;
}
}


can you also explain this better?

I am looking for a script to assist moderating.

It will be good if there is a script that can check all new posts and detect words from a list.

If any word from the list is detected, it will send an email to an email address.

This way we can be notified immediately when any sensitive words are in a new post.

ok, I am trying this as well. I have the code in the functions_newpost.php, and the flagwords setup. I attached the setup. Any ideas?