Regex Moderation 1.3.1

[Thomas.B]

Thomas.B submitted a new resource:

Regex Moderation - Moderate posts with regular expressions to prevent obscured spam

This add-on can detect obscured spam in posts. There are two ACP options with which you can control the detection behavior:


1. Single characters words

With this option you can restrict how many single character words the message may contain at most. This is to prevent spammers that type for example „b a d w o r d“ instead of „badword“.

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2. Word patterns

With this option you can state a regular expressions that will be applied...

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[Chris D]

How does the word patterns bit differ from the built in XF spam phrases system?

 

[Thomas.B]

Good question! The word patterns have a nicer UI

Well, it seems that you can do basically the same with both. I actually don't use any anti-spam measures myself and I think I've only noticed this XF option once a very long time ago while browsing the options. So it didn't come to my mind when I was asked to develop this add-on..

However, there is actually a (small) benefit as the „word patterns“ are a somewhat smaller (more readable). Also I can imagine that the test/analyse links could be handy. Especially if you have lots of patterns..

 

[Kintaro]

the list of words is from the censored word list?

 

[Thomas.B]

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly but there is no (technical) connection between the „word patterns“ and the XF censored words.

 

[Kintaro]

oh know I understood it find patterns that spammer usually use and put a flag on that posts

 

[Thomas.B]

Thomas.B updated Regex Moderation with a new update entry:

Added custom descriptions for word patterns

You can now enter a description for each new „word pattern“ to help remembering which kind of words are matched by the pattern.

IMPORTANT: the word patterns saved in previous releases will not work anymore! So make sure to save them before updating!

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[JohnSmith001]

trying to install gives the following error:

Server Error

Illegal string offset 'pattern'

XenForo_Application::handlePhpError() in Awedo/RegexModeration/Option/WordRegex.php at line 16
Awedo_RegexModeration_Option_WordRegex::verifyWordRegexOption() in XenForo/DataWriter/Option.php at line 365
XenForo_DataWriter_Option->_validateOptionValuePreSave() in XenForo/DataWriter/Option.php at line 222
XenForo_DataWriter_Option->_preSave() in XenForo/DataWriter.php at line 1460
XenForo_DataWriter->preSave() in XenForo/DataWriter.php at line 1399
XenForo_DataWriter->save() in XenForo/Model/Option.php at line 1131
XenForo_Model_Option->importOptionsAddOnXml() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 324
XenForo_Model_AddOn->importAddOnExtraDataFromXml() in ThemeHouse/InstallUpgrade/Extend/XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 148
ThemeHouse_InstallUpgrade_Extend_XenForo_Model_AddOn->importAddOnExtraDataFromXml() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 226
XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXml() in ThemeHouse/InstallUpgrade/Extend/XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 135
ThemeHouse_InstallUpgrade_Extend_XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXml() in XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 169
XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXmlFromFile() in ThemeHouse/InstallUpgrade/Extend/XenForo/Model/AddOn.php at line 65
ThemeHouse_InstallUpgrade_Extend_XenForo_Model_AddOn->installAddOnXmlFromFile() in XenForo/ControllerAdmin/AddOn.php at line 188
XenForo_ControllerAdmin_AddOn->actionInstall() in ThemeHouse/InstallUpgrade/Extend/XenForo/ControllerAdmin/AddOn.php at line 130
ThemeHouse_InstallUpgrade_Extend_XenForo_ControllerAdmin_AddOn->actionInstall() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 351
XenForo_FrontController->dispatch() in XenForo/FrontController.php at line 134
XenForo_FrontController->run() in /home/xxx/public_html/forums/admin.php at line 13

 

[Thomas.B]

Thomas.B updated Regex Moderation with a new update entry:

Fixed a bug

Fixed a bug that prevented a successful installation.

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