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alabamatoy 
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Posted: 30 August 2011 at 12:32pm |
I manage two webwiz forums. I expend a lot of time filtering out the spammers and scammers and insurance salesmen and male-reproductive-issue hacks and such junk. There is a site with an API that supports automating this: http://www.stopforumspam.com/
Has anyone threaded their API into Webwiz? Has webwiz considered embracing stopforumspam's solution in its core codebase?
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 30 August 2011 at 12:53pm |
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This has been looked in to before. This only stops known spammers, but as spammers adapt all the time the service would not stop spam. It is also not available for commercial software so Web Wiz Forums can not be used with the service.
Web Wiz Forums already has all the tools in version 10 you need to stop spam. Read the page below for how to prevent spam within your forums:-
http://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/kb/spam-prevention.htm
Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 30 August 2011 at 1:01pm
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 1:19am |
Bruce,
I adopted stopforumspam on a few of my websites a little over 8 months ago. So far, it has stopped 100% of spam issues.
Its only a few lines of code... wouldnt hurt to add it IMO.
Source Code: http://temerc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=6234
'// Blacklists Function IsUserBlacklisted(sIP, sName, sEMail) '// We need to make sure we can actually create the MSXML object If IsObject(CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")) = False Then IsUserBlacklisted = "Error: MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP could not be created, please check MSXML is installed (v6 or above is recommended)": Exit Function '// Set init bool to false bBlacklisted = False '// Check Blacklists set objXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") objXMLHTTP.open "GET", "http://temerc.com/Check_Spammers/check_spammers_plain.php?name=" & sName & "&email=" & sEMail & "&ip=" & sIP, false objXMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") objXMLHTTP.send "" if objXMLHTTP.status = 200 then If Instr(1, objXMLHTTP.ResponseText, "TRUE", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then bBlacklisted = True end if set objXMLHTTP = nothing IsUserBlacklisted = bBlacklisted End Function
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(my version is cleaned up a bit, but you get the idea on how easy it is to implement)
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 8:23am |
If you read there terms and conditions it is for non-commercial use only and can not be included in Web Wiz Forums which is commercial software or for any commercial forums:- - Your use of this data and supporting software is non-commercial.
- You will not charge money for any software that utilizes the data.
- API queries are limited to 20,000 per day.
However, you can use the new spam filter in version 10 in a similar way to prevent spam but allows you to customise it to your own forum. We are looking at expanding the spam filter to either to either have a file that you can download that contains persistent spamming sites to stop them posting on your forum or use an external lookup to our service hosted on our network in a similar way to stopforumspam works. We have also been working with a Microsoft forum that we host on our network to make it much harder for spam bots to signup to Web Wiz Forums using encrypted unique form parts in the signup and other methods. This is included in the latest 10.03 release.
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Posted: 31 August 2011 at 9:52am |
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Honeypot fields seem to work well for me
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Posted: 01 September 2011 at 12:59pm |
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As the current stopforumspam admin, I need to correct something. The license doesnt allow access to our system to be sold commerically but it doesnt prohibit its use in a commerical product. There are several plugins and mods for other commerical forum software (such as ipboard and vbulletin) as these are permitted, as would any mod or plugin that any one was to code that could be added to webwiz.
Edited by pedigree@sfs - 01 September 2011 at 2:54pm
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Posted: 01 September 2011 at 1:34pm |
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So it couldn't be supported directly in Web Wiz Forums as there are paid versions, but could be included as an mod or plugin?
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Posted: 01 September 2011 at 2:54pm |
 WebWiz-Bruce wrote:
So it couldn't be supported directly in Web Wiz Forums as there are paid versions, but could be included as an mod or plugin?
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Correct. I know this is going to sound a little backward but if you were to provide a code change, freely downloadable as a seperate file (plug/mod/patch etc), that added lookups, then that is completely within the license, just as long as its not incorporated directly into the commerical code at point/time of sale. WW was the first forum that I hacked in order to put active directory authenication into it and I enjoyed it.
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