bpn Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 You should be using the URL blacklist options if you want certain URLs to be blocked from being posted, not the bad word filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpn Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 Thanks, I tried, unfortunately with no success. Blacklisted: http://evildomain*com evildomain*com Still i was able to post: http://evildomain&com evildomain;com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil2 Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 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* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpn Posted March 24, 2013 Author Share Posted March 24, 2013 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil2 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpn Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil2 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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