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]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Yeah this is handy, however spammers can work out how to bypass this, and try and spam the site still, however I like it when they waste there time, because I just come along and prune all there posts in a second flat lol.

You can keep adding to your keywords filter as they start spamming new things, but the "[url" filter should still cover 95%+ of it.

[Snake]

Thanks for this!

[Darat]

Would this block a post made with the enhanced editor and the user has added a smilie via the smilie selection box?

[Adrian Schneider]

No, it shouldn't.

[JJRose]

Hello,

I've just installed this interesting looking modification. I see there are already a few words in there to help start off.
I'm wondering if there are few more keywords/phrases that others have found that would be good to add on?

Perhaps these words could be pm'd me, as I doubt these words would be good to be viewable on this board.

[Adrian Schneider]

I wrote up the default list without too much thought. I've never had a problem with spam so I just used examples that I often saw here or on other popular boards.

I would suggest adding "nokia" to your list, though it catches URLs which is about 99% of all spam.

[s25]

I just added all www. and http:// and all that as new members with under 5 posts dont have much reason to post links.....
Or generaly in my experience they don't unless there spamming.

[Adrian Schneider]

Yep that's right. FYI if you just block "[url" they can't post links (even if they don't enter [url] vB will add it automatically before it's checked).

[Pirate45]

Giving this one a spin Adrian.

The first word I will add is "phone" as our recent spammers are advertising cell phones.

[JimmyN]

Awsome, installed and working great

thanks