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#1 2010-06-12 21:47:19

plg
Piwigo Team
Nantes, France, Europe
2002-04-05
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[Forum] new rule to activate signature

Hi,

There are hundreds of fake user accounts on the forum. Users with no post. Users with a signature full of spam. The goal is to generate backlinks to another website.

I have added a rule to prevent from this: user signature can be activated only if the user has posted more than 10 messages older than 7 days.

If a user posts 10 fake messages, he will have to hope they won't be deleted by a moderator during 7 days (which is quite impossible in my opinion).

And by the way: this rule also applies to the "website" field in the user profile.

Spammers, have a nice day.

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#2 2010-06-12 23:25:52

VDigital
Former Piwigo Team
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2005-05-04
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Re: [Forum] new rule to activate signature

Thanks.


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#3 2010-06-13 00:22:15

mathiasm
Former Piwigo Team
2006-02-06
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Re: [Forum] new rule to activate signature

this implies that defining a non-empty hidden field was not sufficient, doesn't it ?

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#4 2010-06-13 00:24:12

plg
Piwigo Team
Nantes, France, Europe
2002-04-05
13823

Re: [Forum] new rule to activate signature

mathiasm wrote:

this implies that defining a non-empty hidden field was not sufficient, doesn't it ?

I think we are not fighting against robots.

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#5 2012-03-19 09:08:47

konetkar500
Member
2012-02-09
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Re: [Forum] new rule to activate signature

I think it will work as i have also seen most of the spammers taking backlink for there site.


nice step

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#6 2014-03-26 10:53:45

livewire27
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2014-03-26
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Re: [Forum] new rule to activate signature

Important to keep spammers out from reputable forums - i have this headache too :-(

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