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

[HUMMERh3]

Almost forgot...how do you include a phrase or keyword to not allow Such as "nokia cellphone"

I am getting hit pretty hard with nokia cell phone spammers.
Would it be

or stristr($pagetext,'nokia cell phone')

[maestrosdelweb]

How about a new option to this plugin.

If the user is not able to post a link (because he doesn't have enough messages), how about skiping the auto-link feature for urls?

That way, the adress will be posted but without a link.

[amykhar]

To me, making the link not clickable defeats the purpose of the mod. I want to send a clear message to spammers - you aren't welcome here. We don't care about the link you want to post, no matter what format you try to post it in.

Amy

[Darat]

amy - is there anyway of altering this so the enhanced editor doesn't cause a problem? Or at least I think that is what is causing the problem.

What seems to happen on my forum is that when a new member uses the enhanced editor and adds a smilie via clicking on the smilie and then tries to post they are told they can't post URLs until 15 posts. I am assuming this is because the enhanced editor embeds the smilie as an image with a URL path?

[amykhar]

I don't know, Darat. I'll have to think about how to work around that. I suppose the best way would be to kill the javascript in the enhanced editor that does the conversion.

[Paprika]

Originally Posted by amykhar

To me, making the link not clickable defeats the purpose of the mod. I want to send a clear message to spammers - you aren't welcome here. We don't care about the link you want to post, no matter what format you try to post it in.

Amy

Well then tell me why this mod allows anyone below 15 posts to post nokia.com but not http://www.nokia.com?

If you care about the link not appearing at all then why allow nokia.com? I just installed this mod to my board and was able to post nokia.com but no http://www.nokia.com...

[davidw]

There are many issues/bugs with the advanced WYSIWYG editor - I seriously doubt it has anything to do with Amy's mod.

[Paprika]

Originally Posted by christianb

There are many issues/bugs with the advanced WYSIWYG editor - I seriously doubt it has anything to do with Amy's mod.

All the mod has to do is look for "*.com"

Then it would have blocked BOTH of the url types reguardless if the editor modified the url or not, NO? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I ask this becuase she said she thinks that even if the link is not clickable it's still unwanted, so if I am still able to post unclickable links with her mod running, she might want to look into that, since it goes against what she thinks and all ...


I know many people are here critizing her mod when it's free and is provided "AS IS" but I was just checking incase there was something I didn't understand about this mod. Because if you're trying to do something like this, I guess you need to think of all the possible loopholes, and I'm just stating that this looks like it could be one since it appears like this may be one.

I guess on her forum the MOD serves it purpose... until the bots start makin posts that just have "nokia.com" instead of a clickable url..

[Rik Brown]

Originally Posted by Paprika

All the mod has to do is look for "*.com"

Then it would have blocked BOTH of the url types reguardless if the editor modified the url or not, NO? Correct me if I'm wrong.

I ask this becuase she said she thinks that even if the link is not clickable it's still unwanted, so if I am still able to post unclickable links with her mod running, she might want to look into that, since it goes against what she thinks and all ...


I know many people are here critizing her mod when it's free and is provided "AS IS" but I was just checking incase there was something I didn't understand about this mod. Because if you're trying to do something like this, I guess you need to think of all the possible loopholes, and I'm just stating that this looks like it could be one since it appears like this may be one.

I guess on her forum the MOD serves it purpose... until the bots start makin posts that just have "nokia.com" instead of a clickable url..

Paprika:

You can easily do that (or ban any word/phrase you like) by manually editing the *.xml file and re-importing it. Read prior messages in this thread to see how.

Cheers! -- Rik

[Paprika]

Originally Posted by Rik Brown

Paprika:

You can easily do that (or ban any word/phrase you like) by manually editing the *.xml file and re-importing it. Read prior messages in this thread to see how.

Cheers! -- Rik

Well duh, I done that days ago.
I made the post asking this question to the original MOD author, why she allowed the MOD to let those types to get by.