[El_Muerte]

I welcome any feature suggestions and code additions. Feel free to help me improve this mod.

[Zia]

nice to see...hope we'll find it very much usefull

[BadgerDog]

Installed.....

Thanks for your efforts....

I'm so sick of banning and deleting spammers who register and login, starting threads about prescription drug sales or pornographic sites.

I hope this works as I've never handled moderated threads before. I'm not even sure how that function works in vBulletin.

Regards,
Badger

Edit: Question: NM, got it figured out and now have "Quick Moderation" page appearing on Home Page. Thanks.

[El_Muerte]

Ok, version 0.2 has ham and spam reporting.

When you encounter a spam message that was not detected simply press the red flag to submit that message as spam. This will increase the chance that the message will be detected as spam the next time. In the same way you should report a message as ham (green flag) when it was detected as spam. A successful report will automatically mark the post and put it in or remove it from the moderation queue. Of course only forum moderators will be able to report posts as ham or spam.

The red exclamation icon tells you the message has been identified as spam.

[BadgerDog]

In the process of updating to 0.2....

It says we need to modify the template postbit.....

Should we not also modify the template postbit_legacy as well, if boards use it?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

Of course only forum moderators will be able to report posts as ham or spam.

Since there is no place in this mod that I can find to identify who is a forum moderator or not, can I assume you've defaulted to UserGroup numbers 5,6,7 (Senior Moderator, Admin, Moderator) as the basis for this?

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

ps: Can I make a suggestion? Instead of the phrase "ham", why not call it "Not Spam" to avoid confusion?

[El_Muerte]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

It says we need to modify the template postbit.....

Should we not also modify the template postbit_legacy as well, if boards use it

Er.. yes, if your board uses it you should also update it.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Since there is no place in this mod that I can find to identify who is a forum moderator or not, can I assume you've defaulted to UserGroup numbers 5,6,7 (Senior Moderator, Admin, Moderator) as the basis for this?

no usergroup check, it simply relies on vBulletin's API. if the user has privileges to moderate posts in a forum.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

ps: Can I make a suggestion? Instead of the phrase "ham", why not call it "Not Spam" to avoid confusion?

"ham" is the going name for "not spam", you could simply change the phrases that use "ham".

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

Er.. yes, if your board uses it you should also update it.

Done...

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

no usergroup check, it simply relies on vBulletin's API. if the user has privileges to moderate posts in a forum.

Yup, tested it various ways logging in as just a normal user and it works fine... thanks..

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

"ham" is the going name for "not spam", you could simply change the phrases that use "ham".

I didn't know that... must be getting old... I think 'll change the phrases locally...

Nice mod... now I'm just waiting for a spammer to show up so I can see what happens.

I assume this doesn't put a performance (or bandwidth consumption) drain on the system when it's checking externally against their database?

Thanks again...

Regards,
Badger

[sensimilla]

I used to have it installed, its a great modification, thanks for the update.

[El_Muerte]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I assume this doesn't put a performance (or bandwidth consumption) drain on the system when it's checking externally against their database?

Depends on what you call a drain. Post will only be checked when they are created or edited. Only the post body (and a few other pieces of information) will be send to the akismet servers. This traffic is much less than an average user viewing the forum.

Starting from 0.3 you can limit the spam checking a bit. E.g. don't check spam for users in certain usergroups and/or check users with less that X posts (defaults to 50). Spammers are usually new users. No real need to check with established users.
50 might be a bit on the high side since it would take the user 50*post delay before he will get around the spam checking. For example if your post delay is 30 seconds it will take the spammer at least 25 minutes before he can start spamming the forum and get away with it. Of course the each post being made must be a valid post.

[AlexanderT]

Nice mod, especially like your improvements!

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

Depends on what you call a drain. Post will only be checked when they are created or edited. Only the post body (and a few other pieces of information) will be send to the akismet servers. This traffic is much less than an average user viewing the forum.

Starting from 0.3 you can limit the spam checking a bit. E.g. don't check spam for users in certain usergroups and/or check users with less that X posts (defaults to 50). Spammers are usually new users. No real need to check with established users.
50 might be a bit on the high side since it would take the user 50*post delay before he will get around the spam checking. For example if your post delay is 30 seconds it will take the spammer at least 25 minutes before he can start spamming the forum and get away with it. Of course the each post being made must be a valid post.

Great feedback, that's what I suspected about bandwidth and load....

Your 0.3 enhancements (and logic) are right on the money. Spammers on our systems are usually one-timers. They show up, go through the registration process including even doing the email validation, then they post 1 or 2 messages selling porno, drugs or cameras in a couple of public forums. We catch them, ban them and move on.

So, your usergroup check and amount of posts made measurements are exactly how to maximize the mod and minimize the activity.

Thanks for your efforts...

Regards,
Badger

[BadgerDog]

Ok, in .3, I added the additional template change to showthread for in-line moderation, but I can't see anywhere what it does?

Edit: Never mind.... found it... was looking in the wrong place ... very nice design...

Thanks...

Regards,
Badger

[projectego]

/me clicks install