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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Thanks.
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this implies that defining a non-empty hidden field was not sufficient, doesn't it ?
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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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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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Important to keep spammers out from reputable forums - i have this headache too :-(
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