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[GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Alex P.
Date: August 4, 2010, 7:17 pm
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(Guide copied from Simple Machines Support Site
HTML http://simplemachines.org
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-Contents-
[iurl=#General]Part 1- General[/iurl]
[iurl=#Anti]Part 2- Anti-Spam[/iurl]
[iurl=#Mod]Part 3- Moderation[/iurl]
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General
The General page in the Security and Moderation section of your
Administration Panel offers several security related settings
that you can configure to meet your needs. Pay close attention
to these settings, as a properly secured forum generally should
take measures to ensure the safety of itself and its members.
The following are the settings included on this page:
- Do not reveal contact details of members to guests - If
selected this option will hide the email addresses and messenger
contact details of all members from any guests on your forum.
- Allow viewable email addresses - If this option is enabled
instead of users email addresses being hidden to normal members
and guests they will be publicly viewable on the forum. Enabling
this will put your users at greater risk of being victims of
spam as a result of email harvesters visiting your forum. Note
this setting does not override the user setting for hiding their
email address from users. Enabling this setting is not
recommended.
- Failed login threshold - Set the number of failed login
attempts before directing the user to the password reminder
screen.
- Enable error logging - This will log any errors, like a failed
login, so you can see what went wrong.
- Include database query in the error log - This will include
the full query sent to the database in with any database error.
Requires error logging to be turned on. Note that this will
affect the ability to filter the error log by the error message.
- Disable administration security - This disables the additional
password check for the administration section. This is not
recommended!
- Require reactivation after email change - When this option is
checked all members who change their email address in their
profile will have to reactivate their account from an email sent
to that address.
- Require admin approval when member deletes account - This will
make it so that when a member deletes their account, an
administrator must approve the deletion request before the
account is actually deleted.
- Required strength for user passwords - This determines how
complicated a users password has to be to register. The
following options are available:
[li]Low - The password must be at least four characters long.
- Medium - The password must be at least eight characters long,
and can not be part of a users name or email address.
- High - As for medium, except the password must also contain a
mixture of upper and lower case letters, and at least one
number.
[/li]
- Enable reporting of personal messages - This option allows
your users to report personal messages they receive to the
administration team. This may be useful in helping to track down
any abuse of the personal messaging system.
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Anti-Spam
Require Verification
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- Require verification on registration page - If enabled people
registering to your forum must input characters into an input
field as they are shown in a corresponding image. This is to
prevent bots from registering to your forum so it is recommended
to have this setting enabled in most cases.
- Require verification on all guest searches - When guests make
use of the search function they will have to input characters
into an input field as they are shown in a corresponding image
if this option is enabled.
- Post count under which users must pass verification to make a
post - Set the number of posts that members who have fewer posts
than the specified amount would have to enter characters into an
input field as shown in a corresponding image to verify that
they are actual human and not a bot.
Personal Message Settings
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- Maximum number of recipients allowed in a personal message -
This option allows you to set the maximum amount of recipients
allowed in a personal message sent by a forum member. This may
be used to help stop spam abuse of the PM system. Note that
users with permission to send newsletters are exempt from this
restriction. Set to zero for no limit.
- Post count under which users must enter code when sending
personal messages - This setting will force users to enter a
code shown on a verification image each time they are sending a
personal message. Only users with a post count below the number
set will need to enter the code - this should help combat
automated spamming scripts.
- Number of personal messages a user may send in an hour - This
will limit the number of personal messages which may be sent by
a user in a one hour period. This does not affect admins or
moderators.
Configure Verification Methods
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- Complexity of visual verification image(Currently CAF uses
reCaptcha, therefore your selection will NOT appear on the
registration page.) - This determines how complex the visual
verification image is on the registration page. The higher the
level of complexity, the harder it is for bots to bypass it,
however it will also be a bit harder for humans to recognize the
letters in the image.
[li]Disabled: There is no verification image at all.
- Very Simple: Blue angled letters appear in a white box, with
no noise (dots).
- Simple: Different colored angled letters appear in a white box
also with no noise.
- Medium: Different colored angled letters appear in a white box
but noise has been added.
- High: Blue letters appear in various fonts in both upper and
lower case with angle/strikethrough variations and some noise.
The image appears to be part of your theme (no white box).
[/li]
- Number of verification questions user must answer - The number
of questions created by you that a user must input the correct
answer to in order to complete a registration to your forum.
Below this is where you input the question as well as the answer
to each question you provide.
Verification Questions
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Listed here is where you can configure questions and answers to
verification questions for use in various circumstances (in the
same places where members must enter visual verification
characters into an input field). This is used to confirm that
the person performing a certain action is indeed human and not a
bot. You can find these questions asked on the registration
page, on the post page (when the member has below a certain
number of posts, defined earlier on this settings page), as well
as when a guest uses the search function on your forum.
Simply input the question you want to ask in the input field
under the Question column and enter a corresponding answer to
the question in the input field under the Answer column.
Make the answer really obvious because it must be entered
exactly the same way as it is defined by the admin. Select the «
Add another question » link to add more input fields to add
additional questions.
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Moderation
The Moderation page of the Security and Moderation section of
the Administration Panel has settings that you can configure
that deal with moderation related tasks of SMF. Most of these
settings directly deal with the warning system of SMF.
The following options are listed on this page that involve
warning levels. Warnings come into effect when one with proper
permissions goes to a member's profile and selects the "Issue
Warning" link on the profile sidebar menu. Here is where you can
configure the percentages that are needed for having certain
penalties dealt to the member, which include the following:
- Warning level for user watch - The warning percentage that
adds the user to the moderator watch list. A user put on watch
is listed on the watch list in the Watched Users section of the
Moderation Centerand you can view all posts made by all watched
users in that section as well.
- Warning level for post moderation - The warning percentage
that will force a moderator to approve each post made by the
offender.
- Warning level for for user muting - The warning percentage
that will not allow the member to post any further until his or
her warning level decreases.
The other settings are as follows:
- Maximum user warning points per day - This sets the maximum
amount of points a member can acquire in one day from being
warned by any single moderator. Administrators are excluded
from this restriction.
- Warning points to decrement from users every 24 hours - If
enabled, this will cause a member's points to decrease by the
amount set per every 24 hours.
- Show warning status to all users - Having this option checked
will show a member's warning level to everybody else.
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Zerker
Date: August 10, 2010, 8:53 pm
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Thanks for this, it helped me out :) .
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: The-Gamer
Date: March 26, 2012, 10:55 am
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Question:
When I mute a member, is he allowed to send or receive PMs?
Thanks
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Andrew
Date: March 26, 2012, 4:22 pm
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--- Quote from: The-Gamer link ---
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> Question:
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> When I mute a member, is he allowed to send or receive PMs?
>
> Thanks
>
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I believe muting is only for in posts. They can still send and
receive PMs.
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Jaron
Date: March 26, 2012, 8:51 pm
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An alternative option would be to create a membergroup called
"Muted" and change their permissions to remove the option of
private messaging.
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Toynbee
Date: April 11, 2012, 10:02 am
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--- Quote from: Seldom Fail link ---
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> An alternative option would be to create a membergroup called
"Muted" and change their permissions to remove the option of
private messaging.
>
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What a brilliant idea. Would you also recommend this for
trolls?
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Andrew
Date: April 11, 2012, 8:37 pm
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--- Quote from: Jilly link ---
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> [quote author=Seldom Fail link=topic=185.msg3975#msg3975
date=1332813117]
> An alternative option would be to create a membergroup called
"Muted" and change their permissions to remove the option of
private messaging.
>
--- End Quote ---
What a brilliant idea. Would you also recommend this for
trolls?
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Absolutely!
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: Toynbee
Date: April 12, 2012, 3:20 am
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Thanks for this. I've set it up.
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Re: [GUIDE] Admin CP: Security and Moderation
DIR By: guest1313
Date: May 30, 2012, 1:51 am
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I have also applied this as well. Good work!
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