Making a SpamCatcher
 

Well instead of harassing users at registration/login/search, I decided to only do the registration CAPTCHA and detection of spam material in the users first two posts.

Here's how it works, when a new user makes their first two posts, the contents of their message are REGEX'd for certain patterns and keywords.

I'm still rather new to vBulletin modifications, but I know PHP quite well.

I'm not 100% positive how to use data managers, but when I did, nothing happened. Here's what I want to happen

When they are considered a spam bot, their post is set to unapproved and the user is banned, and put in a special usergroup (so we can track possible false-positives)

The current method that does work is a direct SQL query (setting visible = 0 where postid = $post['postid']). But this does not update the "Last Post:"

Any advice?

I had a thought, what if I changed my hook to

_process rather than _complete, then I modify the $post array so that

$post['visible'] = 0;

I'm not sure if I could do this or if I would be forced to use a datamanager, But i'm very unfamiliar with datamans as of yet.

Needsome help.