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We have been experiencing a serious problem with someone SPAMming porn pictures. We tried several things, but everytime they just choose another way to show the porn images. At first, they were attaching them to posts, so we disabled attachments. Then, they had to resort to uploading them as avatars, but apparently they got bored of it and stopped posting for a while. Now, that person is back, and they do not hesitate to upload the pictures on public image-hosting websites, or even putting them as avatars and signatures.

Anyway, most of his messages are similar, so would there be a way to add a mod so that if a certain string of words is recognised, such as "hello all dears", for instance, then those posts would automatically get deleted or be moved to the Erased Posts forum ?

(Obviously, they use different IP addresses all the time, so we cannot efficiently ban them.)
You can use Akismet plugin to stop spamming etc.

For signatures or avatars, If you are using MyBB 1.6 then you can suspend their signatures or posting privileges.

To block them once they recognized needs a plugin though.