Banning URL's

[Roody]

How do you exactly add a URL to a banned list?

[Jake Bunce]

You can only ban IPs and email addresses. Look in your Admin CP -> Options -> vBulletin Options -> [Banning Options]

[JdS]

I think most of us use the replacement thingy for that...

e.g. replace 'osama.com' with '*****.com'

[Roody]

I think most of us use the replacement thingy for that...

e.g. replace 'osama.com' with '*****.com'

ok maybe ban isnt the right word. Isnt there a way to prevent certain URL's from not being shown on the board? and if so how do you do it?

[Steve Machol]

As JdS said, use a replacement variable.

[Roody]

As JdS said, use a replacement variable.

ok thats cool.

[Tolitz]

How do you exactly add a URL to a banned list?

You can simply add it to the censored words list in the general options...

i.e. if you wanna filter a site called smut.com, you simply add {smut.com} to the censored word list....

[JdS]

If I remember correctly, there is one disadvantage to the censored words method. You cannot undo banned urls in existing threads / posts.

[Tolitz]

You cannot undo banned urls in existing threads / posts.

I just tried to add a URL found in an old post into my censored words list, and then I undid it ... the asterisks in that post reverted back to the URL just fine ...

I've been using the censored words list to ban and unban URLs since late last year ... maybe you wanna try it yourself to see if it's just me?

[JdS]

Perhaps you are right; like I said, I wasn't sure.

Don't know if this is relevant

[fury]

As JdS said, use a replacement variable.

Replacement variables won't work in anything above 2.2.0, if I remember correctly, they were killed off by replacing { with &# 123; (no space) in posts. The censor function should do fine though, unless you'd like to rape bad URL's, in which case you'll have to find out how to kill that line that replaces { with the unicode number and then add replacements such as www.iamabadperson.com with www.goatse.cx or something.

[did I just find a bug? { = { = &# 123; (no space)]

[Steve Machol]

Replacement variables won't work in anything above 2.2.0

Huh? Replacement variables work just fine.