Administrative and Maintenance Tools - (Extra Spam Protection) Prevent Posting Of Links On User Group Per User Group Basis

This is another mod I coded for my own forum and thought to submit it here in the hope tha other users might find an use for it as well. Lately my forum has been hits with a lot of spam posts. It seems like they bypass every single prevention at the registration which leads me to believe that those who register are human spammers and once they pass through all the anti spam restrictions at the registration, the spam bots take over to post at the forums.

Anyway, this hack will allow you to make posting of links allowed/disallowed on a usergroup per usergroup basis.

Installation: upload the includes folder to your forum root folder and then import the link_gids.xml file inside the mod package to Plugins&Products in the Acp of your forum.

After you install it, go to your Acp->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager->{ Chose the group that you want to prevent from posting links->Click Edit Usergroup} and under Post / Thread Permissions, you will see a new setting that says: Prevent From Posting Links, set that to yes.

For more information, please have a look at the attached screenshot below.

[Nelroy]

interesting

[cfish]

I just installed this mod on a test boear and it seems to work fine. One thing though; in the AdminCP, the title of this mod is given as "Enable And Disable Flood Limit For User Groups" which is pretty confusing - could this be changed? Also, it would be useful if the title was a link back to this page.

[funmasti]

i was searching this mod from long time ago.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by cfish

I just installed this mod on a test boear and it seems to work fine. One thing though; in the AdminCP, the title of this mod is given as "Enable And Disable Flood Limit For User Groups" which is pretty confusing - could this be changed? Also, it would be useful if the title was a link back to this page.

Sorry about that. It was the title for my other mod. I had forgotten to change it.

Originally Posted by funmasti

i was searching this mod from long time ago.

I hope it will come in handy to you.

[cfish]

Originally Posted by borbole

Sorry about that. It was the title for my other mod. I had forgotten to change it.

OK, let us know when you've updated it and I'll reinstall.

[borbole]

Originally Posted by cfish

OK, let us know when you've updated it and I'll reinstall.

The mod package is already updated with the right mod name. Also thank you for bringing that to my attention

[Xencored]

Thanks for the update mate :up:

[borbole]

You are welcome.

[cfish]

This is a simple but excellent mod and it will help prevent lots of spam on my forum - thanks.

In return, and by way of some constructive criticism, I have a simple suggestion:

In the Usergroup Manager, it would be much clearer and more logical to have the option match the logic of all the other options in the Post/Thread Permissions group. So the option would read "Can Post Links" with the default being "Yes". I attach an image to whet your appetite.

Attachment 118740

[andrew_trell]

Works great!

Thanks