Feature: Moderation Filters
Developer: Arantor
Target: Moderators
Status: 98% (there's things I could do with it that aren't currently done, but things most people probably won't even notice)
Comment:
This one needs a bit of explaining. I never liked the way SMF handled post moderation. I remember the first time I did it, and it bugged the hell out of me. So I came up with this.
Essentially, the idea is to run a series of rules when a post is made, and potentially take action based on the post, its contents and/or its author.
Rules are constructed in the forum of:
* Moderate the post... when any new post is made... if the following conditions are met.
or
* Prevent the post being made... when a new topic is started... if the following conditions are met.
There are also other options available, too.
In essence, this gives you very fine control over moderation without having to manually involve moderators. Don't like certain words being used (e.g. profanity)? Easy, just create rules to prevent the post even being made if it contains a word you don't like.
You can also mix and match criteria, for example you can block posts being made, in a certain board, if they contain certain words and it isn't a moderator making the post. The functionality is there to enable you to tailor the automatic moderation for your community, and the system is extensible, too.
Out of the box, you can prevent a post, moderate a post, or even pin/lock a post[1], limited to just new topics, or for any post. And out of the box you have the choice of a lot of variables: what board the post is in, the post count of the user, the warning level, content of the subject, content of the body, which group the user may/may not be in, or how many links are in the post.
Already, too, there are additional plugins for this, which add facilities like how many smileys are used, how many images are used, the number of words in a post and more, so there really are a lot of options for flexibility.
Developer: Arantor
Target: Moderators
Status: 98% (there's things I could do with it that aren't currently done, but things most people probably won't even notice)
Comment:
This one needs a bit of explaining. I never liked the way SMF handled post moderation. I remember the first time I did it, and it bugged the hell out of me. So I came up with this.
Essentially, the idea is to run a series of rules when a post is made, and potentially take action based on the post, its contents and/or its author.
Rules are constructed in the forum of:
* Moderate the post... when any new post is made... if the following conditions are met.
or
* Prevent the post being made... when a new topic is started... if the following conditions are met.
There are also other options available, too.
In essence, this gives you very fine control over moderation without having to manually involve moderators. Don't like certain words being used (e.g. profanity)? Easy, just create rules to prevent the post even being made if it contains a word you don't like.
You can also mix and match criteria, for example you can block posts being made, in a certain board, if they contain certain words and it isn't a moderator making the post. The functionality is there to enable you to tailor the automatic moderation for your community, and the system is extensible, too.
Out of the box, you can prevent a post, moderate a post, or even pin/lock a post[1], limited to just new topics, or for any post. And out of the box you have the choice of a lot of variables: what board the post is in, the post count of the user, the warning level, content of the subject, content of the body, which group the user may/may not be in, or how many links are in the post.
Already, too, there are additional plugins for this, which add facilities like how many smileys are used, how many images are used, the number of words in a post and more, so there really are a lot of options for flexibility.
| 1. | For example, a rule where the post is made by a moderator, and begins with /lock to lock a topic quickly. |
