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Help with Markup & URLs (block spammers)
I have a Text Markup in place that displays BLOCKED whenever a certain word is typed but it doesn't work when the word is enclosed with the URL tag.

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So, for example, if the word is "microsoft"

microsoft displays BLOCKED

http://www.microsoft.com displays http://www.BLOCKED.com

But,

[url]http://www.microsoft.com[/url] displays http://www.microsoft.com and I want it to display http://www.BLOCKED.com


I'm trying to block certain words and URLs from being displayed to deter spammers.
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Can anyone suggest anything to help me out here? Unsure
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Spam is very VERY serious problem today. Forums with bad spam protection (word filter, url filter, robot post filter, robot registration filter) will be unusable in the future. Yet robots are getting smart those days, so even the Captcha will not protect, email confirmation will not stop the robots and forget about the IP ban. This is a nightmare. Sorry there is no help and there will be no help in the future
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The only hope I know of is Akismet
http://akismet.com/blog/2006/06/phpbb/
If someone would made a plugin similar to this one.
Perhaps there is some free service similar to Akismet. However if the plugin users will use the free apikey from wordpress it is up to them.