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.

[rlpartida]

Hello Everyone,

Thank you Adrian for this hack! I think it is absolutely a good tool for moderators. However, Im having a bug...

When a user posts a moderated word it goes directly to the moderation queue, I have no problems here..

But when the user post no moderated word, they get this message at the top:

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in /global.php(365) : eval()'d code on line 60

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in /global.php(365) : eval()'d code on line 60

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty delimiter. in /global.php(365) : eval()'d code on line 60

Anyone has experienced this?

Cheers,

[Adrian Schneider]

Make sure you have no double spaces between your keywords.

[rlpartida]

Thank you very much SirAdrian,

You were right, in fact I had three double spaces, so each one of those line correspond to each double space...

Thanks again for this great hack!

Regards,

[Tulsa]

A member of my site owns a tattoo parlor and I had a link to it on the forumhome page. Little did I know this was a target for spammers. It's one of their key words to search I guess? I was getting bombarded with them logging in and trying to post their crap. It took a while before I realized what was drawing them to my site and once I deleted that link, they went away.

This little jewel of a mod didn't miss blocking one of them. :up: My members never saw or had an inkling we were being targeted like we were.

[Mecho]

thank u , i will install it asap .

clicked install already

[Nickbe]

Thanks really great hack

[BellyBelly]

Thanks for this, looking forward to seeing it in action being a busy board who is sick of spammers getting around lots of anti-spam measures!!!

[rrr]

I have to say that this is one of the top 3 mods installed on my forum as far as usefulness goes.

It has cut down on "spam cleanup" time by about 100%.

Instead of deleting spam threads in our forum, we move them to a "graveyard" type area that only mods/admins can see. This is great for research purposes. You can go back and see common spam themes/keywords that are used by drive by spammers to the forum.

By looking at those old posts and grabbing the common spam keywords that spammers have used in our 2 year existence, we've basically blocked all drive by spam posts. It's nice, because the spammer still gets to post and think that they've flooded the board with lots of posts, but in reality, none of them show up on the forum and you don't have to worry about spam sitting on your forum when you're away from the board.

Thanks SirAdrian, this is definitely a must have mod.

[hypertextfever]

Pff, can't have a vbulletin forum without this mod. They should make it part of standard installation. EXCELLENT!!!!

[phovanxua]

Installed ...

Thanks .