Just had to delete this *****'s message from the middle of a post in online games.
Please ban / spam / etc
how difficult could it be to make that users couldn’t post urls in their first posts?
Hehe… I didn’t spotted the “ban” word in your thread name and I was just thinking " Soooooooo fun now the spammers ask “PLEAAAAAAAAASE VISIT MY SITE !!” ;D ;D ;D
They also posted in general discussions, off topic and 4k games. Banning is probably worthless of course since they won’t be back and certainly not under the same name.
Kev
True, but we can add their sites name to our dirty word filter, which both wipes it from the ads theyve already posted and prevents them from posting any more.
oooooh, now there is an idea for an April fools - add “java” to the banned word list, and see how much of the forum gets wiped out ;D
yesterday i registered on linuxquestions.org forums to ask a few questions about the mplayer plugin. My question was something like “it does something strange playing this (www.some.url.here) video.” well when i tried to post it failed with the following message “you can not post an url on your first message”
can’t we do something similar here?
How would that help? The spammer will see that, and simply post a dummy first message, then the URL in a second or third message. You would also have to add a limit on the posting frequency for new people etc… it becomes too much of a bother for the legit people.
The “banned word” thing is more promising.
it will be anoying for them and it would help with bots. you can allways ban human spammers
Pretty stupid bots.
As soon as this becomes popular the bots will simply switch to doing two posts and putting the URL in the second.
This is one of those arms races you cant win.
Best solution I knwo of is to reactively add them to the bad words filter. That way not only can they not post anty future links but all currently posted ones go away too.
It also means noone cna post Legitimate pointers to their URL but IMO thats letting the punsihment fit the crime.
besides, if you banned URLs from the first post, what about legitimate posters who are trying to link to source code or other resources on their webserver?
the best defense against bots is a captcha. every braindead forum has this feature somewhere …