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Stopping spam

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Rushian 0
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Stopping spam

I'm getting lots of spam submissions to my links, reviews and downloads queues. (I think the spammers have guessed the URLs and are running the scripts directly.. Does ST check to see the request actually comes from my site, and is not just directly executed..) (I'm on Win32 BTW, so no .htaccess files)

How can I prevent this with 1.8x, and how will this be handled in 2.x?

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Stopping spam

Developer documentation is planned for the final version
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Stopping spam

Originally posted by Philipp:
Originally posted by iampedro:
Hey will you be allow people to develop plugins such as YouTube plugins or other plugsins like  http://b2evolution.net/ allows?

Just so that their will be greater expansion of development and it won't all be in your hands... But if you don't do this I am sure that you will keep a lid on the security settings also to.

It is very easy to include your own modules in the new version. Version 2.0 is highly modular compared to the old 1.x series.



Please include documentation about how to develop our own modules if you want to take a simple one from a different company and explain how to port it or something along those lines would be great also..
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OP 0
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Stopping spam

Ya this worked nicely..
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0
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Stopping spam

Thank you!
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From: Austria
Stopping spam

Here a very basic implementation

Open submitstory.php in an editor and find:

HeaderBlock();

Then add:

if (!$_COOKIE["esselbachst"])

{

echo "Sorry, this page is only available for registered users.";

FooterBlock();

exit;

}
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" You could alter the script to allow only registered users to send a submission." ...

How would I do this?

Thanks!
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13
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Stopping spam

Sweet that is great.. To hear...
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1342
From: Austria
Stopping spam

Originally posted by iampedro:
Hey will you be allow people to develop plugins such as YouTube plugins or other plugsins like  http://b2evolution.net/ allows?

Just so that their will be greater expansion of development and it won't all be in your hands... But if you don't do this I am sure that you will keep a lid on the security settings also to.

It is very easy to include your own modules in the new version. Version 2.0 is highly modular compared to the old 1.x series.
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OP 0
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Stopping spam

Hey will you be allow people to develop plugins such as YouTube plugins or other plugsins like  http://b2evolution.net/ allows?

Hmm, wow, that's pretty nice blog software... I def hope Philipp 'borrows' some of their features. Smiling Face
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Not a problem...

Thanks Philipp..


Hey will you be allow people to develop plugins such as YouTube plugins or other plugsins like  http://b2evolution.net/ allows?

Just so that their will be greater expansion of development and it won't all be in your hands... But if you don't do this I am sure that you will keep a lid on the security settings also to.
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Administrator
1342
From: Austria
Stopping spam

No, this is not in the first test release but it is coming in the second
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Great... I am glad that you have this and also you have it where people can report post or comments correct?
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1342
From: Austria
Stopping spam

Look like I forgot the word filter in the 2.0 release Hushed Face. I will implement this before the public release.
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Sweet... Sounds great...

Do you also have a word filter so that you won't have word's like f*ck and s*x and other words along those lines?
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1342
From: Austria
Stopping spam

You could alter the script to allow only registered users to send a submission.

There are two features for that issue in 2.0:
1) The ability to allow only registered users to send a submission
2) A graphical security code that the user need to enter along with the submission

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