Kind'a ironic that a question regarding spam on punBB should promptly elicit a "reply" that is spam! Does not inspire too much confidence does it?
2 2013-07-11 16:58
Topic: Nipping spam in the bud (1 replies, posted in Discussions)
Hello All,
I have been experimenting with punBB for a few days now. I have had to stay with ver 1.36 since the Post/Registration approval plugin does not work with the current version. One of the things that has surprised me is this - when there are posts awaiting approval I need to reject spammy posts one-by-one with many mouse clicks for each reject. Why is it not possible to simply check a whole lot of posts - like in mail clients such as Hotmail - and delete them in one go?
The other issue is related - being able to approve posts is nice. What would be even nicer is to be able to run a script on a post the moment it is made and just reject it outright if it meets certain criteria. I can certainly code the PHP for this if someone points me in the right direction. I would imagine that a generic solution is not easy to create but for my own limited purposes I can build adequate heuristics to detect things I want to reject even prior to their coming up for approval.
Any help with this would be much appreciated.