Implemented I think we may need to prevent new accounts from adding links to their posts

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In 2 separated cases (that I've seen) from the last two days there were spam accounts posting links.

I think we tried enabling it but the reality is that in 95/100 cases - a newbie that posts a link is shilling for themselves rather than giving an honest recommendation.

I suggest preventing users with less than 10 posts or 10 trophies from posting links - or - automatically change their links to the OO homepage so it's less noticable.
 
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I just handled the report on that account now and I saw the one yesterday as well.

I mainly don’t want to restrict new, genuine members, so I was hesitant to restrict an account’s ability to add links. However, I think this is worth discussing given the back-to-back incidences.

Just to let everyone know about those accounts, the one from today joined June 23rd and only ever posted twice: both times to spam an ad on their proxy service. The one I saw yesterday was a new sign-up that only joined to spam.

Neither were genuine members, so they’ve been banned.
 
Zwielicht said:
I just handled the report on that account now and I saw the one yesterday as well.

I mainly don’t want to restrict new, genuine members, so I was hesitant to restrict an account’s ability to add links. However, I think this is worth discussing given the back-to-back incidences.

Just to let everyone know about those accounts, the one from today joined June 23rd and only ever posted twice: both times to spam an ad on their proxy service. The one I saw yesterday was a new sign-up that only joined to spam.

Neither were genuine members, so they’ve been banned.
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They can still post a URL even if its genuine it just won't be a click able link?

That solves that?
 
t2van said:
They can still post a URL even if its genuine it just won't be a click able link?

That solves that?
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Yes, it would. I think that most spammers use anchors anyways so this will essentially block this behaviour.
 
t2van said:
They can still post a URL even if its genuine it just won't be a click able link?

That solves that?
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That solution works for me.

Alternatively, if this can’t be done easily, I believe I can also send posts from newbie accounts that post links to the approval queue as well.

I’ll look into this more later this week. No need for the 10 upvotes for this one since it’s something we should definitely add in for the community.
 
Another example from 20 minutes ago:
@Rapidproxy posting the usual proxy nonsense:
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roydan said:
Another example from 20 minutes ago:
@Rapidproxy posting the usual proxy nonsense:
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The proxy spammer that usually does this is pyproxy, but this new one has been banned as well.

@Impulse and I just updated the forum so that when a new member who is not in the Registered+ usergroup posts any links, it gets sent to our approval queue. I'll post about this in the changelog as well.

This was an excellent suggestion, @roydan!
 
Zwielicht said:
The proxy spammer that usually does this is pyproxy, but this new one has been banned as well.

@Impulse and I just updated the forum so that when a new member who is not in the Registered+ usergroup posts any links, it gets sent to our approval queue. I'll post about this in the changelog as well.

This was an excellent suggestion, @roydan!
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Great result getting spammer banned so fast.
 
polecat said:
Very true.

I ran quite a few big SEO groups and the spam in some gets crazy high.

I still find it funny the time someone tried sell a donkey.
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People try to sell some crazy things online.

I remember someone trying to sell a baby on another IM forum. A baby….
 
Impulse said:
People try to sell some crazy things online.

I remember someone trying to sell a baby on another IM forum. A baby….
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Maybe it was the type that cries and poops?
 
polecat said:
Very true.

I ran quite a few big SEO groups and the spam in some gets crazy high.

I still find it funny the time someone tried sell a donkey.
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So which are the few big seo groups that you ran previously?
 
TheVigilante said:
So which are the few big seo groups that you ran previously?
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I can't remember all it was a lot Indian or Pakistni ones plus American or Slavic.

I think one was blogger funda I think it had another name before but Facebook shutdown it had a lot of members,
 
polecat said:
I can't remember all it was a lot Indian or Pakistni ones plus American or Slavic.

I think one was blogger funda I think it had another name before but Facebook shutdown it had a lot of members,
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You were the admin of the groups?
 
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