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I've been working on various antispam measure in a phpBB3-based forum I host. Now I was thinking of an extension/mod that ties in with editing of posts (and later perhaps signatures/profiles) in that new text or edited text defaults to something like "not patrolled" and moderators could then in a special queue review text that contains links or similar item (based on heuristics).

Now the question: does such a mod exist (I didn't find one)? If it does exist and anyone has used it (or them), please include your experiences with it in the answer.

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this isn't a complete solution, but if you want to make moderators aprove every post/edit (by a user), then you can use permissions to do that. – Christofian Jan 26 '12 at 0:59
How so? I'm well aware of the moderation queue, but that does not affect posts that were edited again (to include spam links, for example); and it is more cumbersome to use. However, I managed to cut down severely on the spam in out forum, so for now this isn't urgent anymore. I may actually sit down one day and write my own version of such a mod ... – 0xC0000022L Jan 26 '12 at 2:35
or, you can not give people edit privileges. – Christofian Jan 26 '12 at 2:38
Hmm, fair point. But that can become very cumbersome for legit users. It's a fine line between being annoyingly restrictive and effective antispam measures. But thanks, it's worth a consideration ... perhaps for very new users and so on ... – 0xC0000022L Jan 26 '12 at 16:16

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