Guestbook / comments approval

eglwolf · Post by **eglwolf** » Wed 2. Jun 2004, 06:04

http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13764#13764

I would like the ability to approve the comments before they go live on my site. That will prevent someone from spamming nasty messages on our sites.

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Wed 2. Jun 2004, 10:50

what kind of site do you run that would inccure the wraith of the spam monsters?

I replied to the origonal post to the tune of..
yep!, i like the idea. maybe a checkbox to set the default of any further signings to be hidden/visible.
also hidden/visible icons for each signing too.

Paradroid · Post by **Paradroid** » Wed 2. Jun 2004, 13:26

Hi pSouper,

i used to do a site for a local charity organisation. The guestbook was spammed with ****-Mailings so I had to shut this one down.

I definetly would like to have a possibility to set each entry visible or invisible.

cu

Achim

eglwolf · Post by **eglwolf** » Wed 2. Jun 2004, 14:49

pSouper

Spammers don't really care what kind of site you have, if they can use it they will.

I operate a hosting company so I see it all the time, from customers running different types of formmail scripts that have exploits and allowe spammers to use them.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Thu 10. Jun 2004, 21:19

a little help might be that you can remove unwanted entries in the backend.

Oliver

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 08:34

hello

sorry that i open that thread again! but at an costumer domain there i had a few spam entrys in the guestbook. ok i delete it. but i wasn't inform that there new entry. maybe it would be possibel in the future to get an mail if new entrys added!?

eglwolf · Post by **eglwolf** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 08:40

personally, I think any site admin would want to review, and approve comments, guestbook entries (especially for company sites) before allowing them to go live to all to read, see ect.

To me it is like allowing someone to graffit your site with whatever they want, and then cleaning it up after the fact.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 08:52

eglwolf wrote:personally, I think any site admin would want to review, and approve comments, guestbook entries (especially for company sites) before allowing them to go live to all to read, see ect.

To me it is like allowing someone to graffit your site with whatever they want, and then cleaning it up after the fact.

hello

in one kind you're right! but i have not the time to everyday to surf to every site and look for the guestbook/comment entrys. did you have!? so i would think that is a solution.

eglwolf · Post by **eglwolf** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 08:57

Thats what I am saying, when a comment/guestbook entry is made, the system send you the admin an email to tell you. The you just login to the wcms admin and approve or deny it, or edit it.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 09:07

i think they can add it without approval. not every visitor is a spammer and if you have a website wich is popular it's to much stress!

maybe now i think both of our ideas is stressful. so other idea! a badwordlist? one cetral for guestbook, commoent and later for the blog.

frold · Post by **frold** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 14:14

Pappnase wrote:i think they can add it without approval. not every visitor is a spammer and if you have a website wich is popular it's to much stress!

maybe now i think both of our ideas is stressful. so other idea! a badwordlist? one cetral for guestbook, commoent and later for the blog.

I agree it will take to much time to visit your guestbook many times a day....

A mail when a new msg arrive would be nice

But what about having a field where you have to put in 3 numbers that are generated every time you reload the page...

If you don´t understand my then look here:
http://phpbb2plus.phpbb2.de/profile.php ... greed=true

check the validation field or anti-robot field --- maybe a light version of that could be used?

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Wed 16. Jun 2004, 14:50

Good idea.

Oliver

ganesha · Post by **ganesha** » Mon 19. Dec 2005, 12:19

frold wrote:But what about having a field where you have to put in 3 numbers that are generated every time you reload the page...

If you don´t understand my then look here:
http://phpbb2plus.phpbb2.de/profile.php ... greed=true

check the validation field or anti-robot field --- maybe a light version of that could be used?

so? what about this feature?

ganesha · Post by **ganesha** » Tue 27. Dec 2005, 15:50

i really need this feature!

how could i help to develop it?

spirelli · Post by **spirelli** » Sat 31. Dec 2005, 02:31

There is a hack here:

http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5294