Administrative and Maintenance Tools - 8WayRun.Com - Signature Check

This is a very simple mod... I was having a massive spam account problem on my forums. Everyday, about 30 accounts register on my forum, and the majority of them are all spam accounts. They don't post on the forums, but they register, set up a signature, post on blogs and profile pages, and send spam PMs.

What this mod does, is hook into the signature creation. Whenever anyone submits their new signature, if it contains a URL at all, it will send the admin of the forums an email. The email contains:

$username ( mailto:$email ) has returned a positive on signature spam check:

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$signature
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Posts: $posts ( $bburl/search.php?do=finduser&u=$userid )

Control Panel Edit $bburl/admincp/user.php?do=edit&u=$userid
Delete This Account: $bburl/admincp/user.php?do=remove&u=$userid

As you can see, it includes the username, their email address, the number of posts they have made, a link to search their posts, a link to view their control panel profile, and of course a direct link to delete the account.

[Jaxel]

New version of this mod will now only return positive checks on users with less than 50 posts.

Also, this mod will now use your admincp setting, so those who changed the location of their admincp will not be left behind.

[sticky]

Would it be possible to prevent users with less than certain posts to put URL's in their sig?

[Gamelobby]

Don't all signatures have a url in them..!? (link to img host)

[RobbieZ]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Don't all signatures have a url in them..!? (link to img host)

Nope. Try uploading an image you have created and using the tags [ SIGPIC ].

Linking to an image is the lazy way of doing it!

[final kaoss]

haha, this is why I have my forum setup to where people with under 5 posts can't posts links at all. After 5 posts, they can have links in sigs, post links etc... stops the bots dead in their tracks from what you already described.

The way to do this is setup a group promotion which moves them into the link using group after 5 posts for those wondering.

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by RobbieZ

Nope. Try uploading an image you have created and using the tags [ SIGPIC ].

Linking to an image is the lazy way of doing it!

Yea i know about doing it that way, but so many people have their stuff hosted on photobucket, etc, they are used to doing it by just hot linking.
The "sigpic" way deters people from doing it which means less sigs. not to mention it means more hosting for your forums.

Originally Posted by extreme-gaming

haha, this is why I have my forum setup to where people with under 5 posts can't posts links at all. After 5 posts, they can have links in sigs, post links etc... stops the bots dead in their tracks from what you already described.

The way to do this is setup a group promotion which moves them into the link using group after 5 posts for those wondering.

But it doesn't prevent them from making 10 posts in about 10 minutes in the middle of the night. lol

[final kaoss]

out of 4000 + members so far none of the bots have bothered to do that, so I wouldn't worry if I was you. If one manages to slip by, just nail em with the ban hammer.

[Luca_ITA]

Great mod! Installed on 4.1.5pl1

[Luca_ITA]

Working fine on 4.1.9

[vb50kgpoo]

I think this a great anti-spam mod, clearly lost upon many members. I will install now, am using 4.1.12 PL2