XF 1.5 Prevent users from posting email addresses

[NinaMcI]

Hi,
Is there a way to prevent users from posting their email address in posts and conversations?
I've tried adding the phrase

*@*.*

to spam phrases in the ACP spam management options, but this doesn't seem to do the trick.
Thanks for your help.

 

[wang]

That will require a custom add on.

 

[NinaMcI]

What about using the censoring options?

 

[wang]

I have not tried it. But the censor will not prevent users from posting email links. It will simply replace the at, which imo is useless.

 

[NinaMcI]

OK, thanks for your reply.

 

[wang]

No problem.

 

[adwade]

What about using the censoring options?

This is exactly what we do on our board to keep email harvesters from retrieving such, along with using ZB-BLOCK.

Just make *@* a censored word and you can even define a specific custom replacement for it.(i.e. *@* is replaced with c4h yq, thus John@yahoo.com becomes Johnc4h yqyahoo.com)

Under Home/Options/Spam Management in the Spam Phrases also enter

*@*

And Xenforo can automatically throw any such posts into a Moderation Que for you.

 

[teletubbi]

Does it affect user tagging?

 

[adwade]

I wondered about that as well, but yes Tagging Users works just fine even with the @ symbol censored.

In AdminCP, under Home/Options/User Alerts I did opt to not check the __Keep @ character with user mentions box, so we don't have any @ symbols showing up on our board.

 

[teletubbi]

I tried it.
The censorship replaced it.
But the email is still underlying.
So the whole phrase became a email link.

 

[adwade]

I can't explain why, but when a user makes a post with their email address in it our board does not show a link.

For example, here is the content of a post…


Which appears like this…

within the thread.

However, if/when that post is ever opened up and edited then a LINK will appear as you have denoted…


I have no idea why an original (i.e. untouched) post does not show a LINK, while an edited one will. That's also the reason I mentioned using the custom replacement for the @ symbol when censoring it, as it makes it less obvious what the correct email address is.

 

[teletubbi]

I made a custom replacement for @.
But at my board it is always a click able link.
Doesn't matters if the post is edited or not.

 

[NinaMcI]

Under Home/Options/Spam Management in the Spam Phrases also enter

*@*

And Xenforo can automatically throw any such posts into a Moderation Que for you.

That has worked just as I wanted.
Thank you so much for your help