Moderators Functions - Akismet - spam detection

Akismet is an spam detection engine that is mostly used by blogs to check the comments for spam. But it can also be used for forum posts. It is not a definite protection against spam.

This plugin for vBulletin 3.6 will check every thread and reply if it is considered as spam. If it is spam it will put the offending thread or reply in the moderator queue.

In order to use Akismet you need to get a API key. You can get one by signing up on WordPress. The Akismet service is free for personal use. Check the Akismet website for more information.

This vBulletin plugin is available under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License.

Installation instructions are available in the ZIP archive.

Features

• Scan for spam in new threads and post
• Scan content edits
• Automatically put identified spam in the moderation queue
• Report posts as spam or ham (individual post or through inline moderation)
• Limit spam detection to post count and user groups
• Extendable through hooks

Changelog
v1.3

• Added an akismet activity log in the admincp

v1.2

• Fixed an invalid URL issue when using cURL

v1.1

• Option to send parsed post data
• Option to send additional webserver request data for the initial spam check
• Removed product version query
• Added extra information when reporting a post
• Only check API key when entered in the vBulletin options, not for every Akismet request

v1.0

• Various bug fixes: report post submitted wrong data; few missing phrases
• More code documentation
• This plugin now exposes some hooks that others can use to extend the feature set. Like give users infractions when posts are considered spam.

v0.3

• Added options to exclude posts from checking based on user's postcount and usergroups
• Added mass reporting of ham/spam through the inline moderation system.
• Improvements of the internal code

v0.2

• Check spam status on edits
• Add report as ham/spam functionality (requires template edit)

[skippybosco]

Check Proxy was a no go on cutting down spam registrations..

Any suggestions from the community? Note that no actual posts are making their way to the board thanks to this great plugin, but I'd like to cut out the registration all together if possible and no combination of human detections have seemed to deter them.

[dutchbb]

Product import takes forever in 3.7 so probably not working. Please update this for 3.7, thank you.

[epolitica]

* Please update this for 3.7, thank you.

[Damien001]

will this work on vb 3.8?

Thanks

[BadgerDog]

Anyone tried this with vb4 after updating?

It really worked well for us under v3.68 and would like to keep using it...

Thanks ..

Regards,
Badger

[skippybosco]

Yes. Works well in VB4

[BadgerDog]

Thank you very much !!!

Can't tell you how effective this has been ...

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by skippybosco

Yes. Works well in VB4

Just noticed ...

Akismet option is built into vb4 4.03 ...

Did you use this add-on version, or the one built-in?

This add-on seems to have more options, including user group selections etc...

Thanks ..

Regards,
Badger

[gr8dude]

Is there a way to configure the plugin such that it automatically removes a message if it is flagged as spam?

My moderation queue is overloaded, it becomes impractical to monitor it...