Tag Archives: Forums

bbCash

It’s been over a year since I wrote my first post about bbPress. It surprises me that I hadn’t released bbPress Cash (now known as bbCash) for such a long time.
A quick disclaimer: The “money” that is used in this plugin is not transferable between real life and the forums, or vice-versa. It’s simply a [...]

bbPress Moderation Suite 0.1-alpha5 — I’m ba-aack

From the bbPress Plugin Browser:
Mod Log
Keeps track of important moderator actions.
So far, it logs the following actions:

Plugins

Activation
Deactivation

Forums

Deletion

Users

Bozo (on, off)
Deletion

Posts

Status change (delete, spam, undelete, unspam)
Editing (by other users)

Now I need YOUR help
BAD SPANISH TRANSLATION MAN has been able to (badly) translate the plugin into Spanish. If anyone out there knows a foreign language, please translate the [...]

bb-NoSpamUser

bb-NoSpamUser is ready!  It’s a very simple plugin, with less code than the WordPress version.  Unfortunately for all of the non-up-to-date hosts out there, it requires PHP5, but if somebody could port it to PHP4, I’d be glad to include the code.
The logic is simple: When somebody goes to the registration page — either the [...]

Automated Forum Moderation

I was thinking today: there are a lot of kinds of human-generated spam that can be blocked by an automated script.  (The bot-generated spam is almost always blocked by Akismet.)

Double posting — Most forums have a rule against this, but it still happens.  Sometimes it’s allowed in a certain forum (like the sandbox on my [...]

Forum Netiquette

Forums are like giant online buildings full of people who want do discuss similar topics — you wouldn’t join a forum about cooking and post a topic about how rabbits don’t wear shoes, just like you wouldn’t go to a cooking class and try to start a discussion on the topic — the forum “building” [...]