Akismet for IP.Board - 1.0 Beta 1

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The IPS Spam Service is a great way of catching spammers as they try to sign up to your board, but some administrators may want an extra level of protection from those spammers that manage to get around it (by using different email addresses, IP addresses, etc.)

 

Akismet for IP.Board uses the well-known blog comment spam filter, Akismet, to check posts for spam before they make it onto your board. It can then:

 

• Delete or unapprove the post (or topic, if it is a new topic)
• Trigger IPB's built in "flag as spammer" functionality
• Submit details of the spammer to IPS' Spam Service, to help block more spammers for everyone else!

 

Other features include:

 

• Skipping posts by administrators
• Skipping posts by users in groups that cannot be warned
• Skipping posts by users who have posted before
• Reporting content submitted by known spammers back to Akismet

 

Coming in future versions:

 

• Activity log, telling you what content was flagged as spam and what action (if any) was taken
• Ability to mark flagged content as not spam

 

 

INSTALLATION

 

1. Upload the contents of the zip file to your forum root directory (where conf_global.php is) - If you've renamed your 'admin' folder, please change prior to uploading.

2. Log into your Admin CP and click 'Manage Applications and Modules', find "Akismet for IP.Board" and click "Install".

3. Go to System Settings -> "Forums" tab -> "Akismet" and enter your Akismet API key, changing other settings as appropriate.

 

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