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#15782 Anti spam Bad Words List

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 18 April 2013 01:19 CDT

user74231
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: (2.5)
PHP version: (5.3)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (hostgator)
Admin Tools version: (latest)

Description of my issue:

Mine is a forum site. I am using Easydiscuss (Stackideas.com) forum Extension, which already has a bad word filer. It substitutes bad words with stars. I am trying to protect against bad words in my Contact us form, and other forms which I intend to make in future. My questions are:

1. I have a list of bad words to be inserted in Admin tool Antispam Bad word tool. But this tools accepts only one word at a time. Is there a way to insert all the words in my list?

2. Is it really worth using bad word tool? Am I being paranoid about it?

3. Is there a way to replace bad words with some character like star?

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
1. The only way to do that is going through the database and inserting the words in the #__admintools_badwords table.

2. It's a "paranoia" level feature :) I've put it there because a forum I used to manage was spammed by those pill guys (you know what I mean). If your forum already has a bad word filter and you only allow registered users (who have filled out a CAPTCHA to register) post to your forum you don't need it.

3. Nope. If Admin Tools sees any of those bad words it stops anything else from loading. The spammy message never goes through to the forum.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user74231
Thanks Nicholas.
It was a valuable reply for me.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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