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I have talked to someone working black hat and claimed that those type of preventive systems, make them smile as they see it as a challenge. At times, it even gets in the way of a real user as they have a hard time getting through complex letters and characters.
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I'ts such a wounderful application in this wounderful world <3
But joomla extensions would be another place to look.
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katalyst wrote: I've taken the hack from here:
www.kunena.org/forum/114-user-written-ha...for-x-first-messages
and updated it to work with Kunena 1.6.3
To use it, you would edit the /components/com_kunena/lib/kunena.posting.class.php file around line 389 and add the below code. You can edit the $ks_minposts variable to however many posts you want to set as the minimum before the user is no longer moderated.
I'm open to suggestions on how to improve it. I would love to see something like that implemented in the core. I hope its useful to someone.
// Hold the post for new users
$ks_minposts = 2;
$query = "SELECT (count(*)<{$ks_minposts}) AS review FROM #__kunena_messages WHERE userid={$this->_my->id} AND hold=0";
$this->_db->setQuery ( $query );
$this->_db->query ();
$dberror = $this->checkDatabaseError ();
if ($dberror){
return $this->setError ( '-post-', JText::_ ( 'COM_KUNENA_POST_ERROR_SAVE' ) );
}
$ks_userposts = $this->_db->loadResult ();
if ($ks_userposts <= $ks_minposts) {
$this->set ( 'hold', 1 );
}
thanks for this, it worked in a way but it moderated an admin topic with 100 posts. I think there is a check missing. I'm using 1.6.5 if thats why
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Is there a way for me to delete the post of users spam, I cant find a way to do this. Also is there a program I can add on to stop spam from getting through?
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But in the end I solved it!!! Question and Answer is the absolute zero spam solution.
Captcha can be read by advanced computer software or by humans employed for that.
But question and answer, mainly if your website is non-english, puts a human or non-human in the impossibility to understand and reply correctly.
So, how can I put Question and Answer on my Kunena Forum?
P.S. I noticed that if user get wrong captcha they cannot go back and reenter code, while preserving written text, in kunena. So they have to write it again, frustrating...
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I use for a long time the Kunena forum and work great, but lately I receive a lot Spam activity and I can't find any decent plugin to control the Spammers.
Anyone can suggest a plugin or way to filter all the Spam.
Regards,
Peter
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It's this extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...ite-protection/16363
There is still more learning of this extension for me and our team... registered gmail addresses go in gmail junk post still(and some other domains), but all site/forum issues are solved.
Anyway in ReCaptcha you can take again those words @"costisefu" if people/users don't understand... there come new ones, it's helpful sometimes. I use Captcha in my tests...
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Mortti wrote: We have used Admin Tools Professional extension in our site(I do not mean Kunena.org) and there is not SPAM so much... but we have to do couple exception than we release everything not working just fine in Kunena, thanks fast support of admin tools pro...
It's this extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...ite-protection/16363
There is still more learning of this extension for me and our team... registered gmail addresses go in gmail junk post still(and some other domains), but all site/forum issues are solved.
Anyway in ReCaptcha you can take again those words @"costisefu" if people/users don't understand... there come new ones, it's helpful sometimes. I use Captcha in my tests...
Thanks for the informaion, I will check today.
Regards,
Peter
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