Some Spam Control Features Wanted

rAdic · Post by **rAdic** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:39 am

Does anyone know if there is a similar extension to "disallow_links_before_x_posts" that I used for 3.0+?

I could put a number in like "10" so new members had to have 10 posts before they could put links in their posts. This was great for opening registration while stopping spam at the same time.

I would also like to disable a sig until a certain number of posts and also disable having a profile URL that shows up in the member page for new members.

Are there ways to do these things in 3.1 or other extensions that do similar things?

Post by **bonelifer** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:09 am

I like the idea of blocking links for x-amount of posts. I wouldn't completely block them from "posting". I'd say such an extension should send any post that has a link in it to Mod Queue till said user has X posts approved. We've had such a spammer recently here. Their first post was completely sane, and looked like it came from a new user. They didn't post again for 20-25 days, when they did it was obvious spam. So having a separate X posts to queue till X posts approved that was separate from the NRU would be nice.

rAdic · Post by **rAdic** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:27 am

yeah that sounds like some good points. I would also prefer the post is not deleted, maybe an error message so they could edit it and take out the link etc would work.

I find a lot of members just register, don't post and then on further inspection you see their aim was just to get a free link on the members page as is demonstrated right here: memberlist.php?mode=&sk=c&sd=d#memberlist

Post by **bonelifer** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:00 am

The member list by default requires a user to login before they can see it. By default it's not crawlable by search engines.

rAdic · Post by **rAdic** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:27 pm

OK I did not realize that so I guess it's not a big issue. Would be still good to know how to stop links in a users post until they reach a certain post member level?

RMcGirr83 · Post by **RMcGirr83** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 3:50 pm

I believe that mod simply disallows the hot linking of the url. A user could still type the text of the url. (eg likehttp://phpbb.com instead of http://phpbb.com).

I have an extension in development that is waiting for 3.1.10 to be released (and the only reason for that is for this event).

It should work on 3.1.9 even without that commit (version constraint would have to be changed in the ext.php file of the repo). It is in dev so you are warned that it hasn't been validated. Use at your own risk if you dare.

Pond Life · Post by **Pond Life** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 3:53 pm

bonelifer wrote:I'd say such an extension should send any post that has a link in it to Mod Queue till said user has X posts approved.

+1
I would prefer that to the standard all newly registered user posts needing approval.

rAdic · Post by **rAdic** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 4:03 am

RMcGirr83 wrote: It should work on 3.1.9 even without that commit (version constraint would have to be changed in the ext.php file of the repo). It is in dev so you are warned that it hasn't been validated. Use at your own risk if you dare.

that looks great and could be just what is needed but I'm not sure what this all means, if I install it is there anything I will need to edit or change by using it with the current phpbb?

RMcGirr83 · Post by **RMcGirr83** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 9:48 am

You would just need to change this line in the ext.php file of the download

https://github.com/rmcgirr83/authorized ... xt.php#L27

return phpbb_version_compare($config['version'], '3.1.10-RC1', '>=');

to this

return phpbb_version_compare($config['version'], '3.1.9', '>=');

rAdic · Post by **rAdic** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:31 am

Thanks, I will try this shortly. if you don't hear back it went well

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