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 mod was originally done by Erwin for VB 2.x, and is ported with his kind permission.

It is a product. To install, simply import the xml.

(please note Andreas's fixes below if you have problems with scripts that post automatically)

Amy

[Kyderoy]

Will this work in 3.6?

[Darat]

I'm using it fine on a 3.6 forum.

[Kyderoy]

Thanks, I wil install it.

[wtricks]

Installed it. Will slow down the spammers and the "1 post wonders".

[SVTOA]

Originally Posted by ForrestBlack

Hey Amykhar, thanks for doing this add-on. I really liked the former version and this one helps me out a bunch as well. I did notice that the previous version we were using for vb3.0.x was a bit more sensitive, in that it blocked anything with a .com or .net mentioned in the post, in addition to http etc. Now, I'm getting URL spam that isn't actual links.

So, I added

or stristr($pagetext,'.net') or stristr($pagetext,'.com')

to the xml and it seems to work great.

Just wanted to add my suggestion, take care.

Just keep in mind that adding this will now make it so mailto's cannot be posted either. That is a good thing because many spammers are now posting cell phone spam with an e-mail contact. But this change also means someone posting a classifed ad or some other post where they include an e-mail link will not be able to post...

[mrfixit]

Working for me just great on Version 3.5.4

Installed.

Thanx

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by SVTOA

Just keep in mind that adding this will now make it so mailto's cannot be posted either. That is a good thing because many spammers are now posting cell phone spam with an e-mail contact. But this change also means someone posting a classifed ad or some other post where they include an e-mail link will not be able to post...

Thanks for the tip.

[Chadi]

My member complained of the below error:

: ok i really have no idea how to explain it, cuz im not sure of lyrics or anything. i heard it on the radio a few times and i like it alot.

i think it goes like this

"ah yea ah yea, im a not forget, all that you've done for me, all that you've done for me..."

btw who has heard "My Savior, My God"? by Aaron Shust. I absolutely love that song!"


it gave me this error...

"You are only allowed to post URLs to other sites after you have made 50 posts or more and received permission from the Administrator."

My plugin "forbid links for users with fewer than 50 posts.." shows this:

global $vbulletin;
        $pagetext =& $this->fetch_field('pagetext', 'post');
        if (($vbulletin->userinfo[posts] < 50) and (stristr($pagetext,'[url') or stristr($pagetext,'[URL') or stristr($pagetext,'www.') or 
stristr($pagetext,'http://'))) 
    {
             //eval(standard_error(fetch_error('error_nourlallowed')));
                $this->error('error_nourlallowed');
                $return_value = false;
    }

[Keyser S?ze]

is this hack working in 3.6? this was released for 3.5 rc3 thats why im asking

[amykhar]

It seems to be on my site. I haven't tested specifically, but I'm not seeing spammers posting links either. I do see them frantically posting to try to reach the minimum count from time to time though