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.

[RockMTP]

Thanks for this - Installed!

[lindmar]

I dont really understand how to set this?
I've imported it into the products and thats all good?
Now what?

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by tobybird

Beautiful! And much needed as we seem to be under attack. Why in the world these guys think hitting a site full of women is a good thing is just beyond me.

Thanks for the brilliant hack! Installed

Glad you like it.

Originally Posted by RockMTP

Thanks for this - Installed!

No problem - but evidently not.

Originally Posted by lindmar

I dont really understand how to set this?
I've imported it into the products and thats all good?
Now what?

Import Product XML, then go to your AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Prevent Spam (near bottom), then configure it to your heart's desire. It should work out of the box though (just not as well as it could with more keywords defined).

[JamesUK]

just installed it and it all seems very straightforward

If this works like it looks like it will, you are my hero

[david_deng]

Sorry for the stupid question.

I just upgraded to vbulletin 3.6.4. I simply couldn't find where to setup keywords for spam filter after spending 1 hour going through all vBulletin Options.

I do believe the VBulletin's interface needs to be improved!

Thanks in advance!

[Adrian Schneider]

It has its own setting group, and it should be near the bottom.

[JamesUK]

just a quick question on the post count part of the restriction, I see that if someone posts and their post is sat in the moderation pile, their post count is 0. If I set this mod to work with people with 2 posts and less, does that mean they must have a post count of 3 or that they have to have made 3 posts?

ie, do all posts count or just ones moderators have 'approved'

[goteamsgo]

Sounds great.

Any comments on server impact? Would server impact be less if you added an option to only apply this to certain usergroups (like a group for members with < X posts)?

Does the poster get any message when we auto moderate their post or do they just go back to another screen and they have no idea what happened? I don't mind spammers not getting any message but a legitamate new user that gets a false postitive should get something like "Your post has triggered our automatic review process. A moderator will review you post and approve it if it meets our forum rules."

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by JamesUK

just a quick question on the post count part of the restriction, I see that if someone posts and their post is sat in the moderation pile, their post count is 0. If I set this mod to work with people with 2 posts and less, does that mean they must have a post count of 3 or that they have to have made 3 posts?

ie, do all posts count or just ones moderators have 'approved'

It uses the posts counter, which is only updated by approved posts (AFAIK).

Originally Posted by goteamsgo

Sounds great.

Any comments on server impact? Would server impact be less if you added an option to only apply this to certain usergroups (like a group for members with < X posts)?

Does the poster get any message when we auto moderate their post or do they just go back to another screen and they have no idea what happened? I don't mind spammers not getting any message but a legitamate new user that gets a false postitive should get something like "Your post has triggered our automatic review process. A moderator will review you post and approve it if it meets our forum rules."

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.

[brandon515]

Installed, works great for moderating posts with [URL] & [IMG]

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

Thanks,
Brandon