Spam handling for phpBB 3.1

[idiotnesia]

I'd like to see the improvement in spam handling in phpBB 3.1. It's better if phpbb have "mark as spam" feature in the topic/post. At the moment, when my board have spam I need to delete all user's post and ban user. It needs some steps to just stop spammers.

In the forum permission i'd like to suggest "can post url without moderation" and "can post without captcha". This will be very useful for newly registered user group.

Another option is using trigger event action that has been discussed in londonvasion. So we can set if post contain bad words or url then post need to moderate.

If you have any other way to easily stop spammer, please discuss here.

[demon326]

Another option is using trigger event action that has been discussed in londonvasion. So we can set if post contain bad words or url then post need to moderate.

If you have any other way to easily stop spammer, please discuss here.

There is already a mod that does the above; http://www.lithiumstudios.org/forum/vie ... ec3ec53787 to be honest it would be great if it became a part of the core...

[MichaelC]

I think it would be a good idea to have this done. Maybe like a button on their profile saying 'Spam Ban' that only appears to moderators and that would delete the user's posts and ban there IP, User Account and Email.

[imkingdavid]

I think an Emergency Ban idea would be good. It would delete all posts by the user, as well as ban them permanently and delete all of the user's posts. And it would add the user to a Banned usergroup if set up to do so.

[MichaelC]

It may be for phpBB 4 but this feature would fit well into the moderation system RFC designed by imkingdavid

[naderman]

How would you handle permissions for this? Afterall a moderator might not be allowed to delete posts in all forums the spammer can post to. Should only global moderators have this option? Or should there me some sort of exception that allows local moderators to delete posts in forums that they cannot normally delete posts in (sounds like a bad idea to me)? Or do you have other ideas?

[imkingdavid]

How would you handle permissions for this? Afterall a moderator might not be allowed to delete posts in all forums the spammer can post to. Should only global moderators have this option? Or should there me some sort of exception that allows local moderators to delete posts in forums that they cannot normally delete posts in (sounds like a bad idea to me)? Or do you have other ideas?

Well, I think it should be reserved only for trusted staff members anyway. And the moderators would only be able to delete posts in other forums using this tool, and it would only be the posts/threads of the selected user.

[MichaelC]

Maybe make it so it will only work for people with global Mod Permissions and it is also its own permission, so non-global mod's can't use it, yet not all global mod's can use it.

Also, this would fit into a topic here: viewtopic.php?f=81&t=32640

And instead of deleting all the users posts it just 'unapproves' them

[idiotnesia]

How would you handle permissions for this? Afterall a moderator might not be allowed to delete posts in all forums the spammer can post to. Should only global moderators have this option? Or should there me some sort of exception that allows local moderators to delete posts in forums that they cannot normally delete posts in (sounds like a bad idea to me)? Or do you have other ideas?

Looking at the permission design in phpBB, it should be only for global moderator.

Actually I have a bad experience when someone spamming my board and my moderator need do to delete one by one the spammer's posts. Also my moderator can't do anything with spammer's post in forum he cannot delete. Here's other suggestion
- Adding moderation tool in search result.
- Adding user report feature
- Adding more advanced warning system
- Adding option to hide posts from banned user

[MichaelC]

How would you handle permissions for this? Afterall a moderator might not be allowed to delete posts in all forums the spammer can post to. Should only global moderators have this option? Or should there me some sort of exception that allows local moderators to delete posts in forums that they cannot normally delete posts in (sounds like a bad idea to me)? Or do you have other ideas?

Looking at the permission design in phpBB, it should be only for global moderator.

Actually I have a bad experience when someone spamming my board and my moderator need do to delete one by one the spammer's posts. Also my moderator can't do anything with spammer's post in forum he cannot delete. Here's other suggestion
- Adding moderation tool in search result.
- Adding user report feature
- Adding more advanced warning system
- Adding option to hide posts from banned user

Most of that is covered in the RFC by imkingdavid for phpBB 4 here: http://wiki.phpbb.com/PhpBB4/RFC/Moderation_system