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.

[apokphp]

OK, perhaps I'm dense. I checked out VSA's permissions hack...and compared it with this hack. It's true that they are not identical. But are the following differences accurate?

This hack limits the posting of links on a per usergroup basis.

The other hack limits posting of links (in addition to 16 other options) on a per usergroup and per forum basis.

So if we want something simple, go with this hack. If we want something more complex go with the other.

Is this a fair assessment?

[Nicke71]

I have been looking for this for a long time, tagged and will be installed when in office. I have vbstopforum spam and this will kill the ones that gets through. Thanks.

[koolasia]

will this add on work for signatures too

[Nicke71]

I suggest you turn off signatures for the same usergroup you run this mod on.

New users enter one usergroup with restrictions (no sigs, no links). After X posts they got promoted to a normal usergroup.

Originally Posted by koolasia

will this add on work for signatures too

[borbole]

Originally Posted by andrew_trell

Works great!

Thanks

You are welcome

Originally Posted by apokphp

OK, perhaps I'm dense. I checked out VSA's permissions hack...and compared it with this hack. It's true that they are not identical. But are the following differences accurate?

This hack limits the posting of links on a per usergroup basis.

The other hack limits posting of links (in addition to 16 other options) on a per usergroup and per forum basis.

So if we want something simple, go with this hack. If we want something more complex go with the other.

Is this a fair assessment?

I don''t know what that other mod does as I am not familiar with it. But what you said about my mod, it is correct.

Originally Posted by koolasia

will this add on work for signatures too

Nope. This is for posts only.

Originally Posted by Nicke71

I have been looking for this for a long time, tagged and will be installed when in office. I have vbstopforum spam and this will kill the ones that gets through. Thanks.

Glad to see that it came in handy to you as well.

[jezza101]

Just tried this on 4.0.6

When I enter a new post I get the following error if I enter a link from a user who can't post them:

Errors
The following errors occurred with your submission
This forum requires that you wait 30 seconds between posts. Please try again in 30 seconds.

I have made sure I wasn't posting too quickly!

If I try to edit a link into a post I get the correct error message. Anyone else had this?

[ru55ian]

can this mod be ported to 3.8.x plz

[pelicanparts]

Originally Posted by ru55ian

can this mod be ported to 3.8.x plz

I use the "Prevent Spam" plugin, and I added [url to the list of spam words - this seems to be working to stop users from posting urls.

-Wayne

[anupviews]

This is the mod what exactly that I wanted! Thank you borbole. Now, can you tell me how can I edit that error message? I need to edit: "An error has occurred hacktutors! You are not allowed to post links."

[borbole]

Originally Posted by anupviews

This is the mod what exactly that I wanted! Thank you borbole. Now, can you tell me how can I edit that error message? I need to edit: "An error has occurred hacktutors! You are not allowed to post links."

I support all my mods at their threads at my forum

http://www.forumservices.eu/vbservic...er-Group-Basis