Out of curiosity, how do others using this MOD let users know of this fact? Do you just have it in your Registeration Agreement, or in a Welcome PM to them, or what?

I ask, because how is a user to know they can't post a new message with links in it yet? :( Seems if they're unaware of this restriction, the first they'd learn of it was when their post was lost and replaced by the no-spam notice. :mad: Just seems like there is a more user-friendly way of letting new users know this. :confused:

Having installed Cyb - Prevent Newbies from Posting to Wrong Forum at one time, I just happened to remember it has a feature wherein the new user MUST click on a CONTINUE button before their new post is processed.

Since Cybernetec allows one to customize the phrases used for that MOD I was able to put a NOTICE in there to New Users that they are not able to have LINKS in their posts right off the bat. Not perfect, but it'll work and serve my needs to insure a new user is aware of the fact.

We need that in this mod....

I had a member pm me to ask about updating his email address because he forgot his password and since his email had changed he could not get a new password. So, he repeatedly tried to send me his new email address in the pm, but because his post count wasn't sufficient, I kept getting the no spam message. I was like WTF?

The bottom line is he's a legit member, not a spammer. But because of the way I have this setup, he couldn't give me his new email, he had to register a new account. :(

We use this hack and are quite happy with it. Instead of banning .com or http:, we ban specific domains, such as roguedomain.net

LMAO, this is awesome!

Great plug-in, just what I've been looking for... Keep up the good work! Will definitely shoot you a contribution once I get some dough in the old paypal account for this one as it's going to be a fun one to see in play. ;)

Possible to make it pull random comments from a multiple selection list? Mix it up a bit with random posts...

May I also suggest you add an advanded text editing menu for creating these post replacements to use line breaks, underlines, italics, and colors etc...?

advanced text editing menu in adminCP? I don't think I have seen that in any of the mods available here.

It would be easier to open a new thread page in another window and compose the message there and copy+paste it into the adminCP.

well visual authentication for users that post a link that contains such a TLD would be useful too. Like a over lay saying your post contains a link for spam protection we require you to prove that you are human before proceeding.

I'm really glad that so many people like the hack but unfortunately I've been gone for well over a month. I had an issue with my dedicated servers and apparently the hosting company fried my main server and the backup server so I'm in still in the process of rebuilding everything I have worked on in the past 5 years which leaves me no time to work on any kind of vbulletin projects until I get back to where I was :(

If anyone would like to modify this hack, please feel free to do so and continue to improve it as you see fit.

Again, I'm sorry I cannot be of any more help at this time.

it makes all my members in custom groups links use my spam catch phrase :\

Just wanted to say a big thanks for this great hack. It's stopped many spammers on my board.

SkyCatcher, sorry to hear about what happened with your host. I hope you get it sorted out.
I know you don't have time to work on this at the moment, but maybe for someone else who is using the hack, I read through this entire thread, but I wasn't able to find out if there was a way to create a white list or exceptions list for sites that would not be blocked/flagged by the hack.

Thanks!

Installed i love this, this is the best stop spam i have seen, no link no spam ... :)

excellent mod - will help with bots registering along with the human spammers - love it :) works great

Great hack, but i had to uninstall it, there is a huge error!!
When someone registered to my forums, he got an error a huge headers error, (you know, that headers have already been sent bla bla bla) and in the top of the screen there was something about class_dm_user.php, and it gave an error, said that strpos has an empty delimeter, and said the error is on line two thousand and something, i went there and it was a hook call for private_insertpm_process, so the plugin in private_insertpm_process has an error in it. i think it clashes with the fact that my forums sent a PM to new registered users. I'm looking forward to a fix, because other than that your hack works great :)

i have to remove this as well because a new member that has posted way over the 5 posts is et it to can still not post links

Seems to be a great hack, but is it possible to set the postings as need to be moderated instead of replacing his text ?

does this work ok with the latest version of vBulletin ?

And will this hack be updated soon? Seems like a great hack against spammers, but hasnt been updated since december 2006.

This would be an outstanding Hack if that was implemented. Why just keep the post out there for everyone to see? It adds the same amount of Moderating needed to be done.

Maybe someone else could take-over and modify this hack...since the original guy hasnt been on for awhile ?

There are other modifications already available which put posts into moderation queue. The entire purpose of this mod is to reduce the load on moderators.

Moreover, when posts are put into moderation queue the poster gets confused and posts again and again. I have faced this problem in the past.

Well besides that, this Mod is out of date. Alot of its functions dont even work anymore. I tried being a spammer on my forums and was still able to PM other members and edit my post after the automated spam message was displayed.

well, after they did it 5 straight times and noticed that it wont post, they will go away. Better for me , then displaying a message that will confuse most regular members.

Dont get me wrong, I think this is a great Mod.. I just wish it would be taken care of more often.

thanks v good :p

Installed, could come in handy :D

nice job

thx

Sorry I did not know there was a question for me here.
regexp is hard to use at once but easy to implement if you know what you want to reach.
especially if know what conditions / quantifiers must be used.

For that regexp, I gave an example of what that regexp would match, mainly:
domain.com OR domain.co

(www\.)? means we could have www or not.

consider this list of urls

domain.com
www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/vb/images/page.php
http://www.domain.co.uk/vb/image/pages/page.php


as you see, not interested in the full URL.

check this, might help a lot:
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/regu...heat_sheet.png
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/regu...heat_sheet.png

and must know if there is a match, how many found, and how to iterate through the result array.

sorry for the late reply, better later than never though :D

it works perfect for me. nice mod. i did change the message to something a little nicer incase a good person and not a spammer tries to post a link

can you please update this for 3.8 ?

This is the best mod out there to prevent new members from posting links in their posts. But it says the mod hasnt been updated in 2006 ?

I found it really useful when using it before.. I know of no other way of disabling links from being posted by spammers.

Hello, I'm sorry that the mod has outlived it's functionality but at the moment I do not have any time to fix it or update it for 3.8 :( I haven't done anything in vbcode for over a year and just don't have the time to start up again.

I'm sorry that the mod doesn't work as intended anymore and hope someone will come along to pick it up and update it to work with 3.8.

Thanks to all who said thanks and got some use out of this :)

I'll help chip-in and maybe pay for it completely.

If you still have the skills, let us know how much is needed.

works for me in 3.8.4

Its a good mod.. bu I find there are numerous tld's like .ws, .su etc so spammers are able to post.. or can someone give list of all tld's so we can enter it there in its configuration?