Automatic Whitelisting Members

Here's the same issue. (actually this issue is not for AntiSpam module but for Akismet module). Since AntiSpam is a successor of Akismet module, the same method should work.

Whitelist - do not check for spam if user is on whitelist
http://drupal.org/node/125671

Only the thing administer person needs to monitor the number of comments/nodes posted by authenticated users. You can create this list using the Views module. Then if the number of comments/nodes reaches the threshold number, you need to change the user's role from regular authenticated user to trusted authenticated user who can post comment/nodes without spam check.

You can create a small module that does this user role updating during cron run using hook_cron(). All it needs to do is get the list of the users who has posted more than certain number of posts (node? comment?) and then change their role to the one that has permission to post node/comment without being checked by AntiSpam module. This is not that difficult to develop.

AntiSpam Helper Module

Attached is a small AntiSpam Helper module created to do the work requested in this issue thread.

Currently it has only one helper function, which automatically upgrade the role of the user who has posted certain number of published nodes/comments to the specified trusted user role. If you create a new user role who can post nodes/comments without spam checking, you can use this helper module to automatically upgrade trustful users to the new role which does not require spam checking.

The role to be upgraded to, and the threshold number can be configured from the AntiSpam Helper module's settings page.

In the future, I will add more functions and release it as a seperate module, but for the time being I just release it as beta here at AntiSpam project page.

Please note that it will keep the current user role and add a new role (which is specified by the settings page).
Currently, it runs at hook_cron() but no more than once a day. Since it checks all users it may take some time if the number of users is a lot.

Let me know if you find any problems.

pixture,

Any chance of updating this for D7?

Thanks,
Sam

This looks great! +1 for a D7 version, and an "official" module release.

I triple that on a D7 version.

Did a quick port of the module to D7. Works on our medium sized forum (3k users).

I think this should either be rolled into or turned into an official module. We wouldn't be able to use AntiSpam without it.

If I made a patch to get this helper into antispam itself could it be accepted and rolled in?

For what it's worth, in other implementations that I've seen where a user gets whitelisted after they get over X number of non-spam posts, spammers will post a couple dozen nonsense or innocuous comments just to hit that threshold, then they start posting blatant spam that doesn't get checked at all because they've already been whitelisted.