SpamTrap

SpamTrap is a lightweight chat anti-spam plugin. If you run a server at some point you get hit by spammers and just problem players who it just ruin it for everyone else. This was originally a sub component of the dMod plugin. I decided to move it out and flesh it out as a plugin in its own right.

No anti-spam plugin will stop spammers from being creative but this uses a few simple techniques to keep there annoyances to a minimum without driving up your CPU usage.

Features

• Lightweight.
• Simple and easy to configure.
• Chat and command spam protection.
• It just works!

Installation

Just download and install in your plugins directory.

Configuration

General

• remove-whitespace. Removes white space from chat.
• remove-repeating. Removes repeating characters from the chat.
• remove-duplicate. Removes duplicate player chat. An example is a spam of Hi! over multiple lines.

An example

remove-whitespace: true
remove-repeating: true
remove-duplicate: true

Punishment

Punishment can be mute, kick or ban. Now ban is really a temporary ban and the cooldown is in seconds. This denoted by the cooldown setting. Mute simply mutes the player and kick does exactly that, kicks the player.

punishment: ban
cooldown: 120

Recording/Logging Chat

To enable the logging or recording of player chat to chat.log file you need to set the record to true.

chat:
  record = yes

Messages

These are the messages relayed to the player when a punishment is handed out. Please note they are indented under messages: heading.

kick: "Spamming!"
mute: "You have been muted for spamming!"
ban: "You have a temporary ban for spamming!"

Player enter/leave message spam

Do reduce the amount of players entering and leaving messages use the following

reduce-join-quit-messaging: yes

This is really only useful on busy servers. The default is no.

Version check

SpamTrap has the ability to check if it is up to date. It will not update itself but it will tell you if there is a more recent version.

version-check: yes

Permissions

• spamtrap.reload. The default is set to operator.
• spamtrap.exempt. Exemption from SpamTrap checks. The default is set to operator.

Donations

If you find this plugin (or any of my plugins) useful please take the time to donate. I develop these plugins in my free time (which I do not have a lot of) and your contribution will help me to continue my work on these projects. Thank you.