Mini Mods - Prevent Spam Posts

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.

[goteamsgo]

Originally Posted by SirAdrian

It uses the posts counter, which is only updated by approved posts (AFAIK).There should be nearly 0 server impact. It will search the entry (while in memory) for all of your keywords very quickly, and if any are found the post will be marked as requiring moderation, which triggers the standard 'your post will not be visible' message.

Thanks, can anyone tell me where to adjust the redirect delay on the message they'll get:

Thank you for posting! Your post will not be visible until a moderator has approved it for posting. You will now be taken back to the forum. If you opted to post a poll, you will now be allowed to do so.

Mine redirected after only a second and a poster would not have had time to read it.

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by brandon515

Is there any way to automaticly notify mods that there are posts/threads awaiting moderation?

Thanks,
Brandon

That's a job for another hack.

Originally Posted by goteamsgo

Thanks, can anyone tell me where to adjust the redirect delay on the message they'll get:
<snip>
Mine redirected after only a second and a poster would not have had time to read it.

Again, that's a standard vBulletin thing and you should take it up with them.

[AntonyF]

Hi there. Excellent hack, just what we wanted. However I installed it and ran into a problem. Everyone on the board couldn't post attachments; it said they were over quota even though we don't set quota. Very odd. I turned this mod off, then they could attach again. Any ideas? We're on 3.6.4, I know this mod is for 3.6.3 and perhaps that's the problem? Thanks.

[encryption]

I installed this and ran into the following error

Warning: strpos(): Empty delimiter. in /global.php(356) : eval()'d code on line 9

any ideas ?

btw I am running vb vBulletin 3.6.4 and used the product-siradrianpreventspam.xml

[s25]

I had that try re-uploading global.php I dont know how I fixed mine! But it worked after I uploaded files again so i am guessing it was that

[Mayers]

Hack installed .

I thought i'd share the list of keywords that hit my forums a lot.

ipod buy [url free sex pharmaceutical ringtones wii [email nintendo playstation 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 free download dvd video myspace games cash software xbox xbox360 360 PS2 x_box PSone PS3 play station Apple ipod USD $

[s25]

Personaly i just bann http:// and the url commands, I dont see any reason why someone with less that ten posts should be posting links and if he has a legit reason I will allow em through

[briansol]

great mod, thanks. been getting hit like crazy lately...

[ScubaAddict]

Great mod! I just switched from a different mod to this one, and I got a couple of questions/enhancements?:

1. a quick edit to a post will allow the restricted post. For example, I make a post, come back and edit it and put in the link (spam part) using the quick reply - it is allowed.
2. quick reply doesn't show the user the 'moderation' message - so it just looks like their post doesn't show up.

Is there any way to get the 'this post has been flagged...' message to stick around for a long time, like 10 seconds? But still leave the regular redirect at the same time (2 or 3 seconds)?

[basskiller]

this is a really sweet hack Thanks