Recent content by Jon12345

In my Spam Management section I have the following: /^http(|s):\/\/\S+/si www // It is to stop new members from spamming. However, users are complaining that if they reply to a post, that post may contain a url and then the spam filter gets triggered, thus confusing the new user. They are...

Has anyone created a list of banned words so that certain topics cannot get discussed on the forums, and the banned words are replaced with ***? Just wondering if this can help with the Online Safety thing.

Regarding this pointless exercise, I need to get moving on it because the bill must be taking effect real soon now, if it hasn't already kicked in. Given that, do I need to send them anything, or is it just a question of doing a written audit for your own site, and then storing that? Yes, I am...

If an account can get hacked by a pedophile, then doesn't it make age verification a bit of a pointless exercise?

Is there any way to a) search for all users where the entered DOB suggests they are children, and then delete these members, and b) put a block on registrations for anyone below a certain age, according to the DOB field? And what is the situation a child signs up but lies about their age on the...

I just got hit with an adsense policy violation: Google-served ads on screens without publisher content When I checked the url, it went to myforum.com/forums/members/sv88ooo.170915/ So, it looks like it is a profile page. I've got my ads setup all over the place so is there any way to suppress...

Due to a recent influx of spam, I am considering batch deleting users with zero posts, ising the ACP>Users>Batch update users section. The ones I want to target are those who registered this year, with zero posts and who put something in the occupation field. it is because the spammer has been...

Thanks. I turned it off and it directed me to the whatismyipaddress website, which it was originally setup for before installing this addon.

Only just came across this addon today, and wow, it is brilliant! Great work @AndrewSimm. I have a question regarding some settings, namely those shown in the image below. What do you put in there? Also, before if I wanted to check the blacklist status of an IP address, I would click the IP...

I've installed your addon and blocked VN, UA and IN. Not ideal, but at least in the short term it will wipe out some of the spam. Thanks for the recommendation.

I notice that the spammer keeps changing the Vietnam name to things like Viet Nam, Việt Nam etc. i.e. their location keeps changing. Is there a way to hide the Website field when doing a registration? I have existing members who use it, but I mean for when someone signs up. Does any of the...

Good point. Although I am not sure if the bots can detect if they cannot post urls in a field, and so to save resources they abort these sites. How can I identify what they put in those fields?

I notice the Vietnamese spammer is using IP's from other countries now and not just Vietnam. But, they always have "From Vietnam" in their profile page. Here is an example of one that is using an IP address from India. So, I cannot just block based on country. In my search, I came across this...

It shows visitor solve rate and API solve rate. I get the visitor bit, but what is the API solve rate?

Just implememeted it, hopefully correctly. Will see how that goes.