Forbid Users from Posting Links or Images if They Have Fewer than 15 Posts
 

Just as the title says - if a user has fewer than 15 posts, he will be unable to post a link or an image within a message. This includes e-mail addresses and the system cannot even be fooled by the old user[at]email.com, we also locked that down.

Reduce your SPAM today!

It is a product. To install, simply import the xml via your Admin CP, Manage Products, Import New Product. No configuration is required.

Updated

12/05/2008 - Thankyou to Amykhar for allowing the future development of this modification.

Version 3.1

- Title re-created to make sense in Admin CP.
- Date updated added.
- Added protection so that users posting "user[at]user.com" cannot fool the system.

Please remember I did not create this modification, it was created by Amykhar and Erwin. Permission has been obtained for a re-release and future updates to be provided by myself. I will continue to support and update this modification as necessary in the future.

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Support: I provide support as and when I can, members are free to help each other although posting code is not permitted.

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Certain members have been suggesting code edits for this modification. I have tried them and they just make this product stop working. Please do not attempt any manual code edits as it may stop the product from functioning. I am open to suggestions and improvements for the further development of this modification.

Please send me any code you would like included via P.M, DO NOT post it here. I can do testing and you will be credited if your code addition is added.

Feel free to offer support, suggestions and installation advice.

dont u need to ask him before posting his mod ?

Why does it matter, it's just re-posted, I took no credit and people have started installing it. I just thought it would help people find it. If he has a problem and contacts me I will remove it no questions asked.

is it possible to just disallow links and not images?

no no do not take me wrong.

i am just asking.

i do not know either that u need to ask or not.

Just don't worry about it mate. I have just re-posted something, people do this all the time, some take credit for others work I do not, really don't worry.

XiZa the answer is no, sorry, every link off-site gets blocked.

howbout posting email addresses?

No, it won't let you post an e-mail address.

Cool, thing that I was looking for.

VERY NICE.... (the update)

Thanks, I hope the minor update helps you all. ;)

Official Permission from the previous developer has finally been obtained for posting of this mod to future versions. I look forward to updating this in the future and wish you all spam-free forums. Also I hope you all really like the update I made.

Installed

Excellent idea

We had a problem with adult porn viagra etc spam but this is just what we needed to help put people off and saves us a lot of time deleting posts of one time spammers

Thank you

Clicked Install

Thanks, that's exactly what it's here for. I hope it helps many others like yourself. I know how annoying all that spam stuff is, especially the porn and spam stuff.

Great Mod, would be even great if it could be configured by Admin.

Thanks nonetheless.

FYI - This mod is not preventing images/links from being posted in 3.7's social groups.

It might or might not be working for profile visitor comments - I'm not sure yet (haven't tested).

It is not intended to, it's just to prevent spam on the main forums.

It won't be long before the spammers figure out they can target the social groups instead.

Thanks , thats intelligent

Installed !

That's it!
Simple and cool :)
Installed...

awesome job

A couple issues that arose right away with this mod:
1) members with < 15 posts are unable to report posts.
2) members with <15 posts are unable to quote posts containing links, images, or email addresses.

i would also like to use this hack but i only want to block urls, not images

thanks

Will this stop the spam bots that no longer use url tags? I see some of them post links that are not active as in you have to copy and paste them. So will this prevent those also? Can you rig this to work with signatures?

installed, but changed it to only work with under 1 post, just to stop spam.

i think it may work for those types of url because it blocks all of these:

($pagetext,'[url') or
($pagetext,'[URL') or
($pagetext,'www.') or
($pagetext,'@') or
($pagetext,'[at]')
($pagetext,'http://')))

you could add or remove others i suppose.

Actually I like this better:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=173490

If you would like a more advanced anti-spam mod please feel free to use the mod above. This one is very simply and has one objective, to filter URL's, Images and the like from new users. that is the goal of this modification and that is all that it does and ever will do. This is a very simple modification for people who don't want to configure settings e.t.c and it does the job it was created for.

Does this work with 3.7.1?

Is there a way to change the amount of posts?

You can change the amount of posts by editing the file in Dreamweaver athough this is not supported here. A clue would be to change the value of 15. This is not supported here, do so at your own risk. I only support the changes that I personally make to the file and upload.

installed great simple hack thanks

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Installed this. But I am yet to test with a test user.
Good thinking. Thanks

I love this hack but my RSS feed would not work when activated. Anyone else having this problem? Thanks.

Same problem for me. Disabled until a workaround can be found.

Marked and Installed! Works perfectly! Thanks :)

Working perfect for me too, thanks.

I ran across this post in the older version of this product. Though I don't know anything about how it works, would this be a solution for those of us with RSS problem when using this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=90