Suggestion: Wildcards/regex in badword list

[bpn]

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.

[Michael]

You should be using the URL blacklist options if you want certain URLs to be blocked from being posted, not the bad word filter.

[bpn]

Thanks, I tried, unfortunately with no success.

Blacklisted:

http://evildomain*com

evildomain*com

Still i was able to post:

http://evildomain&com

evildomain;com

[Neil2]

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*

[bpn]

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...

[Neil2]

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

[bpn]

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.

[Neil2]

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?