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Anti-Spam support

Hi,

I wonder how difficult would it be to also have Akismet support written in much like http:BL and recaptcha empty-field validation has been?

I'd love to implement support for Akismet as I already have API keys for such and so forth...

Not only that, but I'd also like to implement StopForumSpam support for Elkarte as well.

Will we be able to implement such support for at least 1.1?

Re: Anti-Spam support

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I don't see those being added to the core, but they are very good addon possibility's.

I used to use  Akismet as well, but have not in some time, for no reason  other than I have not had a spam problem as of late.  Found it more useful on WordPress then the forum, but it did have its use.

As you noted, we have Bad Behavior, http:BL,  captcha,  empty-field validation (also a timer to prevent filling in forms to fast).  You can also add in the question / answer challenge on the registration page, (a simple yet very powerful anti spam control).  Thats all in the core which is why I don't see us adding more in but addons seem a good avenue.

Re: Anti-Spam support

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Quote from: Spuds – I don't see those being added to the core, but they are very good addon possibility's.

I used to use  Akismet as well, but have not in some time, for no reason  other than I have not had a spam problem as of late.  Found it more useful on WordPress then the forum, but it did have its use.

As you noted, we have Bad Behavior, http:BL,  captcha,  empty-field validation (also a timer to prevent filling in forms to fast).  You can also add in the question / answer challenge on the registration page, (a simple yet very powerful anti spam control).  Thats all in the core which is why I don't see us adding more in but addons seem a good avenue.

That's very true. I'd love to have them as add-ons since so far, ever since I implemented http:BL, there's been zero spambots getting through to my forums that I've turned those on.

I know for one that at least I'd like to have SFS support for one of the forums I have that I can't quite enable http:BL support on, as that's been the most effective method so far.

Re: Anti-Spam support

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Just to be sure I'm not missing something, you can enter your http:BL API Key in the current anti spam features of ElkArte. 

Go to Admin -> Security and Moderation -> Anti Spam -> Bad Behavior.  Enable BB and then you can enter
http:BL API Key,  http:BL Threat Level  and  http:BL Maximum Age details.  With that filled in it will use that feature as well (change the level and age with caution)

Re: Anti-Spam support

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Quote from: Spuds – Just to be sure I'm not missing something, you can enter your http:BL API Key in the current anti spam features of ElkArte. 

Go to Admin -> Security and Moderation -> Anti Spam -> Bad Behavior.  Enable BB and then you can enter
http:BL API Key,  http:BL Threat Level  and  http:BL Maximum Age details.  With that filled in it will use that feature as well (change the level and age with caution)

That's not the issue for us on the forum. We enable it on the httpd level for every server we run.

Re: Anti-Spam support

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Sidenote, there is a SimpleMachinesForum mod for StopForumSpam...

So technically the work is already done. We'd just have to get it ported over to Elkarte. How difficult that'd be to get done... I'm not sure, but I'll take a look at the code and see if it's within my ability to port over.

Hopefully I won't break it too badly. :P