Version: 1.00, by Adrian Schneider
Developer Last Online: Nov 2022
Category: Mini Mods -
Version: 3.6.3
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Released: 11-13-2006
Last Update: 11-13-2006
Installs: 600
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Description
This will allow you to automatically scan new posts from new members for common spam keywords. If any are found, the post/thread will be sent to the moderation queue to prevent their spam from having any affect. If your filter is very strict, and a regular user happens to trigger it, no harm is done because your moderators can just approve the post.
Options
Maximum Posts - this will only scan posts posted by users who have this many (or less) posts. Usually spammers only post 1-5 times!
Keywords - a list of keywords (or any strings) to be searched. Remember it doesn't match a whole word, so a keyword of "[url" will block the user from posting any links. This is NOT case sensitive!
3.5 Users:
A 3.5x version XML file is also included.
Question - when a post is moved to the moderator queue, does it count towards their post count? So if we set the "max post" setting to 5, and a spammer posts 6 times, with 5 of them going into the moderator queue, will the 6th one show up live?
This mod has been a great help. Has it ever been updated so that it checks subject headings as well?
Another thing that would be a great jelp would be the ability to set rules to check for keyword avoidance behaviour. Such as if the post has more than 3 asterisks it would go to mod queue. Or if there were more than four letters in a row with spaces between them, it would go to mod queue.
Do i get to see the spammy posts that get sent to moderation queue here:
ACP -> Moderation -> Moderate Threads/Moderate Posts? Does the moderator get an email if a post has been blocked and sent to Moderation queue?
Do i get to see the spammy posts that get sent to moderation queue here:
ACP -> Moderation -> Moderate Threads/Moderate Posts? Does the moderator get an email if a post has been blocked and sent to Moderation queue?
Yes to answer your first question, no, there is not an email sent.
A question for the hack producer, had a strange one today. I have archived members who have been on the forum for more than a year and who have zero posts, by putting them in a new user group. It would appear that the spam trap didn't catch one of these this morning, is it because he was not in the usergroup "Registered user" ?
I don't know if anyone noticed this, but the filter is applied only on new threads, not on posts to existing threads, so this solves only the half of the problem. Though it is a good thread and
is working fine, but will be better if posting to existing threads is taken into cinsideration.
Also there is a simple way to workaround this filter, that is by posting a thread without any of the filter keywords, then modifyng the post and adding them, they will not be catched and the threads will still there.
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10-22-2008, 07:56 PM
