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Posted March 23, 201311 yr We have problems with members that regularly find new ways of promoting their sites, ex. competingdomain,com competingdomain-com competingdomain.dot.com Would make it easier to prevent if wildcard, or better, regex was available.
March 23, 201311 yr You should be using the URL blacklist options if you want certain URLs to be blocked from being posted, not the bad word filter.
March 24, 201311 yr Author Thanks, I tried, unfortunately with no success. Blacklisted: http://evildomain*com evildomain*com Still i was able to post: http://evildomain&com evildomain;com
March 24, 201311 yr Try using the wild card in the formats the way it is suggested and written below the blacklist box, I have some blacklisted on my site and it will not allow any hot links to be posted. i.e.: http://*somedomain.com*http://competitor_domain.com*
March 24, 201311 yr Author Ok, maybe I have been unclear. Blocking a hotlink is easy, what these guys do is to post textlinks with the dot substituted by all kinds of characters. vbulletin;com vbulletin..com vbulletin-com vbulletin,com vbulletin'com and so on. (Justs an example....) All our members know that they exist, these links are posted just to remind them hoping they will make vbulletin a visit...
March 25, 201311 yr Okay sorry, add those words to the bad word filter list on the forum. It will work as long as they do not make it plural. And ban those buttholes
March 29, 201311 yr Author Thanks, but they are clever at finding new combinations. Only real solution is as topic title says, wildcards/regex. Cannot ban them, they use dynamic ip's.
March 29, 201311 yr Thanks, but they are clever at finding new combinations. Only real solution is as topic title says, wildcards/regex. Cannot ban them, they use dynamic ip's. What country are most of them from?
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