Moderators Functions - PM Moderation

PM Moderation
Version 1.0

Introduction

PM Moderation does exactly what it says on the tin! It allows you to moderate your members Private Messages before they are sent.

Ever had a new member sign up and do nothing but spam your members with Private Messages inviting them to leave your forum and join theirs? Or perhaps you've got 1 particular user who constantly sends abusive Private Messages to your other members? If so, then PM Moderation is the idea solution!

Features

PM Moderation contains many handy features to make your life as a forum Adminstrator or Moderator easier. These include

• Integrates fully with vBulletin 3.6.0 Beta 2!
• Fully Usergroup Controlled
• Moderate ALL Private Messages for a Particular Usergroup or...
• Moderate Private Messages that have certain Keywords in them!
• Simple Usergorup Permission for deciding who can Moderate Private Messages
• Integrated within the existing Private Messaging Options in the AdminCP
• Moderate Private Messages directly from within the ModCP and AdminCP
• Fully Phrased
• ... and much more!

Installation

Please see the manual.html in the zip for a full Installation and Configuration guide

Credits

PM Moderation was written by Alan @ CIT. The original idea came from Floris with the Keyword idea coming from an anonymous person. Thanks goes to everyone who helped test this modification before it was released, and in particular peterska2 who did a ton of Beta testing, and fixed countless bugs in my dodgy code


Important: Unfortunately, my leased vBulletin licence has now expired, and I won't be renewing it until September which means I will be unable to reply to this thread, or update this mod until then. I'm hopeful that the great vBulletin.org community will step in to answer any questions in my absence though See you all in early September!

PLEASE NOTE: This thread is NOT the place to discuss the rights and wrongs of monitoring users Private Messages. That topic has been discussed to death many times before, but if you really feel the need to discuss it, please do so in The Lounge, not in this thread. Thank you

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by COBRAws

Thats because no "your PM has been sent to XXX" is shown to the user, and he believes that the PM was not sent, so he writes it again and send it.

The truth is that the pm was sent, but this Filter does not tell the user that it was sent.

Are you sure? Today, I found the same copy of the pm literally about 150-175 copies. Are you going to tell me this [good respectful] member sent it about that many times?

[Chadi]

508 duplicates today. Tell me the person sat there and resent it 507 times additionally.

I have to sit there and manually check each one, 508 times because there is no "check all" to reject or approve option.

[Spiffware]

its not there its under users. not usergroups

[Pitlane]

Is there any way of making the keyword filter extend to pm titles too ?

If I put "Register at http://www.myforum.com/forums" in the pm then the filter blocks it but if I have the pm title as "Register at http://www.myforum.com/forums" then it bypasses the filter and goes straight to the user unmoderated

Any way that the filter can put pm titles in the queue too ?

[snags204]

Im having this error on top of pm qeue in admincp.

Warning: substr_count() [function.substr-count]: Empty substring. in /modcp/moderate_pm.php on line 290

Heres line 290: $matched[$keyword] = substr_count(strtolower($clean_messagetext), trim(strtolower($keyword)));

[sybakaos]

Great hack, I like the fact you didn't put a message "Your PM has been put in the moderation queue" when sending a PM. Spammers should be attacked silently.

For those who oppose the hack, it's not unethical. Encrypt PM's if you worry about privacy.

[Mrdby]

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The requested URL /forum/modcp/adminpermissions.php was not found on this server.

[chatzworld]

is their a way this can be set to just one user but with out having to change the usergroup they are in