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#1 2008-09-06 22:10:26

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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rah_comment_spam

It’s all about:

  • Prevent comment spam by adding various custom filters via simple interface under Extensions.
  • Set comment message lenght limitations: min and max, words and characters.
  • Limit amount of link untill comment becomes spam.
  • Define spam words and substrings, and set the limit how many spam words are needed untill comment becomes spam.
  • Customize error message that is shown to people who post spam.
  • Define a custom hidden spam trap field.
  • Change the spam protection method.

More info and downloads

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#2 2009-01-18 14:59:49

Calm
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Registered: 2009-01-07
Posts: 16

Re: rah_comment_spam

Hi!
Nice plugin, thx!

Do you plan add comment count per minute limit?


Best regards

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#3 2009-01-18 17:32:01

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
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Re: rah_comment_spam

Thanks, calm :)

Calm wrote:

Do you plan add comment count per minute limit?

Nope not at this point atleast. Because it would require own logging. It could limit little some spammers, but usual automatic spam comes from mass amount of different IPs. (Side note: I believe that identifying IP-logging is illegal in some countries, and comment posting makes it identifying. Option should be completely optional).

But maybe in future, after 4.0.8 TXP release and all that.

Last edited by Gocom (2009-01-18 17:35:42)

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#4 2009-01-22 19:37:10

gerhard01
Plugin Author
Registered: 2006-12-07
Posts: 108

Re: rah_comment_spam

Small typo:

Link to documentation in the interface under Extensions says:

Documention

Thanks for the very useful plugin since I get swamped by comment spam lately.

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#5 2009-01-22 19:50:30

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Re: rah_comment_spam

gerhard01, thank you for reporting that typo :)

Version 0.1.2 released. Really minor changelog:

  • Fixed Documention to Documentation.

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#6 2009-01-22 19:59:43

gerhard01
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Registered: 2006-12-07
Posts: 108

Re: rah_comment_spam

Wow – supersonic 13 min 20 sec between report and update! Incredible!

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#7 2009-03-12 12:06:48

jakob
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From: Germany
Registered: 2005-01-20
Posts: 4,578
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Re: rah_comment_spam

Hi Jukka,

Great plugin and nice to be able to block evil words. I’m not having any luck with blocking [URL] though – all your other built-in examples work. Can you take a look and see why? Thank you.


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#8 2009-03-12 17:29:25

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Re: rah_comment_spam

jakob wrote:

Great plugin and nice to be able to block evil words. I’m not having any luck with blocking [URL] though – all your other built-in examples work. Can you take a look and see why? Thank you.

Thank you jakob for reporting this :-)

That was an issue with case-sensitivy, or atleast partially: all needles written capitals didn’t get flagged. This was caused, because I forget to turn needles to lower-case, but remembered to turn comment message to lower-case, leading to issue where those two counter-parts can’t match. Bug fixed in the new version, 0.1.3; now matching is not case-sensitive.

Changelog of rah_comment_spam version 0.1.3:

  • Fixed forgotten strtolower().

More info and downloads

Last edited by Gocom (2009-03-12 17:33:05)

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#9 2009-03-12 19:03:06

jakob
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From: Germany
Registered: 2005-01-20
Posts: 4,578
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Re: rah_comment_spam

Thanks Jukka for the quick fix! It worked :-)


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#10 2009-05-03 18:55:19

douglgm
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From: Bristol
Registered: 2006-08-23
Posts: 182
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Re: rah_comment_spam

Installed this a few days ago after I started to get some attention from those damn comment spammers. Seems to have done it’s job rather nicely – and great admin interface!

Keep up the good work!

Doug.

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#11 2009-05-03 20:21:42

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Re: rah_comment_spam

douglgm wrote:

Installed this a few days ago after I started to get some attention from those damn comment spammers. Seems to have done it’s job rather nicely – and great admin interface!

Keep up the good work!

Doug.

Thanks :)

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#12 2009-05-04 00:38:54

Gocom
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From: Helsinki, Finland
Registered: 2006-07-14
Posts: 4,533
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Re: rah_comment_spam

Update. New rah_comment_spam version 0.2 released. Changelog:

  • Added user based time relative posting limit.
  • Fixed hidden spamtrap input’s escaping.
  • Improved comment posting evaluating speed.
  • Merged install, save, update and fetch arrays.
  • Improved installation script.
  • Merged SQL queries.

More info and downloads

Last edited by Gocom (2009-05-04 00:40:11)

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