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.

[Adrian Schneider]

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] <= $vbulletin->options['preventspam_posts'] and !is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 10)) 


[famousthomas]

Pardon my noobishness but where do I find this list of keywords to edit?

[Jamie1]

My forum is having issues with spam bots and this is what i needed. Many Thanks
*installs

[Parker Clack]

Great hack. I know you are very busy but it would be nice that your next version included a notification to the moderator of a particular forum that I post is in the moderation que.

Thanks again,
Parker

[HDT]

Wow,all moderators at my forums say thank you for this mod.Very helpful to do their job

[cashpath]

I installed the other SPAM stopping mod but it catches RSS feeds and has no support (so I want to change) does this one catch RSS feeds?

[briansol]

I created a little plugin that displays a notification pop up box to moderators that there are posts/threads in the queue to check, which is useful when running this mod (lets you know that a post has been sent to the queue via this mod)


throw this at the bottom of the footer template:

<if condition="can_moderate()">
$checkmodqueue
</if>

and install the attached plugin.







This can probably be done 231431243243432 times better, but it works for me.

[Parker Clack]

briansol:

Great job. Do you think that instead of a post up that you could write that private message is sent?

Thanks,
Parker

[007]

Here's an idea to make this hack even better.

What about if there were certain keywords that would trigger instant deletion and ban? I mean for example, most new members would hardly ever start a viagra thread that was worth reading...

Why even moderate? I would love to be able to never even see this crap anymore. Would be awesome if these fools could be banned on the spot and their threads deleted. Moderated threads still take time and we still have to manually ban the idiots.

There are certain keywords that most forum admins never want on their forums from new members, such as all these prescription drug spam posts.

[projectego]

Just installed this on my Fable Forum and I can confirm that it is working flawlessly. Thanks again, SirAdrian!