Three words came to mind when I saw that Pligg had released a module for Stop Forum Spam: 'bout bloody time! If you don't already know, Stop Forum Spam is a database of spammers which can be checked against automatically when a user attempts to sign up for your site. Although I haven't used Pligg for over two years, my site is still ever-present on the dozens of "Pligg Lists" that circulate on the net for spammers to post their ads to. Hotaru has its ...
Since moving JapanSoc to HotaruCMS about 48 hours ago, I've added 32 spammers to the StopForumSpam database and have four pages of them on my "Blocked List". I usually get hit by the same spammers again and again, so hopefully once they're all banned, things will quieten down a lot. Now that I'm getting some real spam to test Hotaru's numerous anti-spam features on, I'm uncovering a few issues that makes zapping spammers less fun than it should be. First of all, the email ...
I've just managed to fix the problems I was having submitting spammers to the Stop Forum Spam database, and I have to say that this is just totally brilliant! The demo site got its first spammer, so I went to User Manager, checked the box next to the spammer, checked "Add to Blocked List", checked "Add to StopForumSpam.com", selected "Killspam" and voila, the guy is double-banned and his spam post deleted. What do I mean by double-banned? Not only will ...
It's been a busy couple of days here. After finishing the User and Post Manager plugins, I wanted to work on a Comment Manager. I quickly realized that I was missing a comment_status field in the Comments database table, so spent a good while adding that, and allowing users with given permissions to delete a comment or send it to moderation directly from the comments themselves. This led to various issues with child comments that no longer had a visible parent... and that was just the start! ...
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