Anti-Spam Options - Minimum Post Count Required To Post Blog Entries

This is a simple Plugin / Mod that was suggested to me by Kevin(kh99), Special thanks to him. And so I wanted to make it public so that others could use it as well.


What Does This Plugin Do?
What this Plugin does is, it stops newly registered users from Creating Blog Entries before they have a certain number of posts in the forum. Even though we used the vBulletin Q& A for Human Verification, On one of our forums we had a issue where a lot of new spammers (either bot or human) would register and would post spam blog entries, everyday. After adding this plugin that problem is gone. :up:


DEMO

To Install

1. Create a new plugin using hook blog_post_start
2. Use the Code below

NOTE: Remember to change the red colored "x" in the "$min_posts = x;" to a number of your liking, eg. 5 or 10. This will represent the number of posts that a user is required to have to be able to start their own blog entries.

$min_posts = x;

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] < $min_posts)
{
    print_no_permission();
}

The mod / plugin is free and the code is reusable so feel free to improve on it. You dont require to put any link backs or copyright or anything to our forum, you are welcome to use it as you like. Please Remember to Tag it for later, or if you install it then please do Mark As Installed


Mod Version and Updates
Version 1.01 May 31 2012 - First version, Tested on vBulletin 4.1.12 & 4.2 and Released

[dacho]

Thanks mate
Simple and good!

[zyiad]

Thanks

[Bankfodder]

Looks great - but I'm afraid that I don't know what to put for Hook location and it won't allow me to save the plugin.
Can you help please

[Nirjonadda]

Using Hook location "blog_post_start"

[Bankfodder]

Thanks. I thought that was the title!!!!

[lgnd]

Thanks! Installed on 4.2.0

[Hostboard]

This is a huge help as we have the same problem. Would be nice if the error message actually gave the actual a physical reason why they are blocked.

[Mukashi]

Exactly what I've been looking for. Far too many blog spammers lately.

[Disco_Stu]

How will the visitors know how many posts they must have before they are allowed to blog?

If they just get the generic "no permission" message they will no doubt start sending emails or messages to the admins asking what is going on.

Can this be modified to inform them as to why they are being prevented from creating a blog to avoid all the questions?