Anti-spam measure - option to have automatic quarantine of forum posts that contain an external link
- Status
- Open
- Subject
- Anti-spam measure - option to have automatic quarantine of forum posts that contain an external link
- Version
- master
- Category
- Feature request
- Feature
- Admin Interface (UI)
Forum
Monitoring
User Administration (Registration, Login & Banning) - Resolution status
- New
- Submitted by
- Gary Cunningham-Lee
- Lastmod by
- Gary Cunningham-Lee
- Rating
- Description
I think it would be good to have the option to have Automatic quarantine of forum posts that contain an external link. There would be an alert informing users that posts containing an external link will display after being approved by a moderator.
This would effectively end the kind of (likely AI or other automatic) spamming for link placement that we've seen in the tiki.org forums, I think.
This could be generalized to enable site admins to quarantine posts containing other content as well, such as hate speech. Maybe the admin preference would include a checkbox for "external link" and a text field for other content.
About the implementation, on the edit-forum page (such as tiki-admin_forums.php?forumId=14&cookietab=2#content_admin_forums1-2) there is an "Approval type" admin pref with options "All posted", "Queue anonymous posts", and "Queue all posts". To me the wording is a little unclear but maybe "Queue posts with external links" could be added here.
(I think "Require approval for" would be clearer than "Queue" in the wording of the options.)
It might also be good to extend this to also apply to comments, or to be ready to, if spam starts showing up there.
- Solution
- Workaround
- Importance
- 7
- Easy to solve?
- 5
- Priority
- 35
- Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
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- Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
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- Ticket ID
- 8937
- Created
- Saturday 28 February, 2026 14:45:26 UTC
by Gary Cunningham-Lee - LastModif
- Saturday 28 February, 2026 16:40:42 UTC