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.

[steven s]

II hope this will be updated for v4, otherwise I'm sticking to 3.x.
This mod is on my list of must haves.

Thanks for making it available.

[rrudeboy]

just installed this one.... i added www and http, is that a good idea ?

tks to the developer.

[rolfw1]

Yes, I've also included the @ symbol, Email, sale and quite a few other spam related words.

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by rrudeboy

just installed this one.... i added www and http, is that a good idea ?

tks to the developer.

I think you just need the www.

[rolfw1]

I put the HTTP as well for addresses which don't use www.

Just have a browse through your spam posts, there are common words in most of them.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by rrudeboy

just installed this one.... i added www and http, is that a good idea ?

tks to the developer.

Originally Posted by rolfw1

Yes, I've also included the @ symbol, Email, sale and quite a few other spam related words.

Originally Posted by Fungsten

I think you just need the www.

Originally Posted by rolfw1

I put the HTTP as well for addresses which don't use www.

Just have a browse through your spam posts, there are common words in most of them.

There is a much simpler way to handle email links and URLs - prevent the bbcode for them by adding the following to your Prevent Spam rules [img prevents a spammer from getting around the issue by using images of email addresses or URLs):

[url [email [img

This way, you don't have to worry about which form of URL is used...

[GearX1]

Great Addon Awesome!

[snoopy5]

Hi

does this also work with visitor messages within user profiles ad/or within Private messages?

Does it work with vb 3.83?

Thanks in advance

[mycouponsgreg]

I've installed this mod because we have had a rash of people from China posting nonsense on our boards just to put this "smiley face" in the post:

http://www.ipodz.co.cc/imgs/signature_damoo.jpg
and
http://www.esharez.info/imgs/signature_deepthakur.jpg

I put ipodz and esharez into the spam filter list but it isn't stopping these posts. These are new members so they aren't hitting the 30 post threshold to not scan. Any ideas?

[rolfw1]

A few spammers have twigged that if they post just any old text in a post it will pass the spam filter, then they go back and edit it with the spam links.

I've disabled newly registered members' ability to edit posts which has temporarily solved the problem.

I'm Looking at better ways to do it though, perhaps the hack writer could explore including post edit in the hack?