Hi STH forum community,
Added a new anti-spam feature today that will block people adding links in their profiles, signatures or posts when they first register.
Background
I started noticing (and deleting) several users who would register and just post spam in their profiles which is the big reason for doing this.
Luckily XenForo makes these easy to spot:
But frankly, I need a solution other than deleting 10 of these manually each day.
New Requirements
You will now need to have the following to post links:
We are also going to do matching for harder to find urls so if you do not meet minimum requirements and try posting w w w . yahoo . com that will get picked up as well.
The Question
Does this sound too burdensome or unreasonable? I know a lot of people do register to post news or something they find, but need to take some countermeasures against these bots.
Regards,
Patrick
Added a new anti-spam feature today that will block people adding links in their profiles, signatures or posts when they first register.
Background
I started noticing (and deleting) several users who would register and just post spam in their profiles which is the big reason for doing this.
Luckily XenForo makes these easy to spot:
But frankly, I need a solution other than deleting 10 of these manually each day.
New Requirements
You will now need to have the following to post links:
- 3 posts
- 1 post like
- 1 day registered
We are also going to do matching for harder to find urls so if you do not meet minimum requirements and try posting w w w . yahoo . com that will get picked up as well.
The Question
Does this sound too burdensome or unreasonable? I know a lot of people do register to post news or something they find, but need to take some countermeasures against these bots.
Regards,
Patrick