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I know we can ban by a user by IP, but what do we do when it's a bot that has a multitude of addresses?
The reason I ask is that beginning last night, there's a bot that has been targeting Nucleus blog comments. It's promoting online casinos, etc. One of our developers adapted a blacklist plugin from Pivot to stop this from happening.
http://www.i-marco.nl/pivot-blacklist/
Does this sound like a plugin that can be adapted for PunBB?
That probably wouldn't be too difficult. All depends on how the blacklist works.
How it works in Nucleus is like this:
Before a comment is added to the database, the content is scanned against a list of known spam links. If a match is found, the comment is not added and the user is directed to a spam page.
As for the plugin mechanisim in PunBB, I don't know if we can latch on to system internals, etc.
you can't affect anything directly with punbb plugins they basically just allow additional fucntions to be added not currect fuctions to be edited, but couldn't you just mod post.php to put the post though the "scanner"
you can't affect anything directly with punbb plugins they basically just allow additional fucntions to be added not currect fuctions to be edited, but couldn't you just mod post.php to put the post though the "scanner"
Ok, I see. Well them yes, I guess you could mod post.php to get it to work.
Thanks for the insight.
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