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Prevent Spam Posts · **Released**: 11-13-2006

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.

voteforbird · #32 11-26-2006, 10:35 PM

This doesn't prevent mailto: links, does it? I just had a spammer post links to his email address while using this hack.

Adrian Schneider · #33 11-26-2006, 11:18 PM

Add "[email" to your list of keywords.

bobs409 · #34 11-27-2006, 09:43 AM

Thank you, it's right where you said to look.

And I had a pleasant surprise when I went to my forum. I caught one of those spammers in this new trap! LOL :laugh:

Excellent MOD. I'm nominating it for MOTM.

Bob

Adrian Schneider · #35 11-28-2006, 06:41 AM

I'm going to update this soon to prevent people from editing posts (using these same conditions).

contactsonia · #36 11-28-2006, 07:46 AM

Great Job SirAdrian

Here are a few more words which may prevent spamming to some extent:

Bullet-Proof
Cialis
Ciallis
Credit/Debit_card_update
OEM_Software
Pharmacy
Popular_soft_-_very_low_price
Rolex
Softtabs
SouthTrust
Valid_Marketing
Viaagra
Viagra
Viccodin
Xannax
antidotes
l8OO_0rder_N0W
pharmaceutical_
vaigra

jwocky · #37 11-28-2006, 11:39 AM

Absolutly amazing hack, just installed will see results instantly i'm sure. Is there a way to add a seting to simply delete the emails rather then sending them to a moderation queue ? Or even go as far as deleting the user?

crazymeezer · #38 12-02-2006, 06:43 PM

This hack is so simple, yet so useful.. Thank you

I wondered if it scans thread Titles, or if that was possible. I have idiots trying to exploit my Top 5 stats that was patched months ago with a meta refresh as the title. They don't work, but it would be great to have these ditched too.

Great Work.

Julie · #39 12-04-2006, 10:06 PM

Anyway to add the option to simply auto-delete those posts/threads and perhaps the option to ban the user as well?

It works like a charm here

Caught one idiot trying to post the same post several times... Ahhh, succcckkkerrr!

Adrian Schneider · #40 12-05-2006, 06:37 AM

Scanning the title is possible, so I'll add that to the next version. Banning or auto-deleting the post isn't really what this is about, and will be problematic when you get false positives (though that depends on your keywords).

tobybird · #41 12-05-2006, 08:17 AM

Beautiful! And much needed as we seem to be under attack. Thanks for the brilliant hack! Installed

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