"Official" integration with Akismet

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Re: "Official" integration with Akismet

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Hello EXreaction,
it's great to see that you are back! :)

Your MOD/code is a very carefully solution. Which means that moderators have to check every post which has been called to be spam by Akismet. (I hope that I'm right.) I understand this point. But I could imagine that moderators won't like this job. Also in my experience it's possible to live without the approval.

I would prefer something like a plug-in system for several HTTP blacklists which supports not only Akismet. Other very (or more) usefull HTTP blacklists are Stop Forum Spam and Botscout. The plug-in system also could support Project Honey Pot.

Also user account registrations should be checked, too.

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EXreaction wrote:I've recently developed a mod: http://lithiumstudios.org/forum/viewtop ... =31&t=1976

Modified into a PR: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/pull/866
Could you update your email address on github? Getting bounce backs. :)
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Re: "Official" integration with Akismet

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Done

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Nathan, could you make it into an RFC & ticket first please.
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Re: "Official" integration with Akismet

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Rather than having hard coded integration with akismet, can we maybe have a generic plugin interface for these kinds of antispam tools? How much work would it be to change the pull request to be a generic antispam plugin feature with akismet as a default plugin shipped with phpBB?

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As long as there are some hooks in the places needed, it would be simple.

A hook would be needed in the following locations:
functions_posting (submit_post, probably two needed, one to check if it's spam, then one to add the data for the new columns to the post query)
mcp_queue (approve_post)
view topic (output a field, either as custom profile as it is now (hackish) or as a new button)

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Well I was actually thinking of making this a regular interface, more like auth backends or search plugins, which would not rely on hooks. But I guess the latter would work as well.

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I'm not sure what advantage you'd gain by making a whole interface for it. If there are enough alternatives to Akismet that do roughly the same thing (check posts to see if they are spam, accept spam/ham submission) then that may be a good idea, but I do not know of other alternatives.

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I'm pretty sure that some alternatives already exist. Maybe tools like stopforumspam actually start doing that as well. So some generic antispam interface would be rather useful I think. That interface might include optional steps for registration data as well.

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