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

[Alan @ CIT]

It sends normally ("Thank you, your PM has been sent") but gets put in the moderation queue rather than go straight to the recipients.

Thanks,
Alan.

[Julie]

Cool *saves link*

[lstintxs100]

delete the post plese

[Terminatoronly]

thanks alot i was waiting for this hack

[Jonathan Young]

This hack will be updated when 3.6 gold comes out, right?

[Alan @ CIT]

It (should) work with 3.6 Gold without needing to be updated.

Thanks,
Alan.

[Shazz]

*watis for the update
Thanx alan

[tinjon]

does it allow to open inboxes of certain member? just to check?

if my understanding is right, lets say you have 20000 members and you place them in private message moderation que, it will be a lot of headache manually releasing the messages.

also will it change the timestamp? like, i send a message right now, and it reaches after being approved by admins 5 hours later. will the recepient see the original time or whent it was released by admin?

smart users will figure this out and might create adversary effect.

that's why i wish it allowed random message check instead of sending them for moderation first, or "keyword" check by default.
no one can prevent spamming.

i can simply use an image to send my message without ever getting caught.

but if this hack allowed random message check, maybe i'd be in bad luck if admins caught my message while cheking the PMs sent in their forum.

anyway,, i appreciate your efforts. i hope you will take my comments into consideration for next time.

/* oh, for recrods, i'm not judging it. i'm all for monitoring user activity occasionally. i dont' think its ethically wrong. as forum owner, i should know what's going on in my forum. */

[Terminatoronly]

thanks alot for this hack i am using vb3.6.0
but there is a problem in the hack here is the problem in the database appear i have tried to use moderation by keywords here:
Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:

PHP Code:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
    `title` = 'Members',
    `description` = '',
    `usertitle` = '',
    `opentag` = '<font color=\"#330033\"><b>',
    `closetag` = '</b></font>',
    `passwordexpires` = '0',
    `passwordhistory` = '0',
    `forumpermissions` = '782847',
    `attachlimit` = '0',
    `pmquota` = '500',
    `pmpermissions` = '3',
    `pmsendmax` = '50',
    `moderatepm_permissions` = '0',
    `calendarpermissions` = '63',
    `wolpermissions` = '1',
    `adminpermissions` = '0',
    `genericpermissions` = '472389575',
    `genericoptions` = '54',
    `profilepicmaxwidth` = '400',
    `profilepicmaxheight` = '300',
    `profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
    `avatarmaxwidth` = '130',
    `avatarmaxheight` = '130',
    `avatarmaxsize` = '20000',
    `signaturepermissions` = '237567',
    `sigpicmaxwidth` = '500',
    `sigpicmaxheight` = '100',
    `sigpicmaxsize` = '20000',
    `sigmaxrawchars` = '1800',
    `sigmaxchars` = '900',
    `sigmaxlines` = '0',
    `sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
    `sigmaximages` = '80',
    `hhroptions` = '0',
    `anymediapermissions` = '3'
WHERE usergroupid=2;

MySQL Error  : Unknown column 'hhroptions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date         : Tuesday, August 8th 2006 @ 09:13:17 PM
Script       : http://*******.com/admincp/usergroup.php?do=update
Referrer     : http://*******.com/admincp/usergroup.php?do=edit&usergroupid=2
IP Address   : 
Username     : Terminatoronly
Classname    : vb_database 


[peterska2]

The field that is causing you problems is not one created by this modification.

The error is being caused by whichever modification adds the hhroptions field to the usergroup table.