With this new halknulker whatever user, there are a couple of posts. Understand that the Forum software has limitations on what it can and what it cannot do,
1. is there some way of limiting a new user to post more than 1 post in a week, though they can reply as many times to their own post.
2. Can there be a catchpa for the initial post, that way you can eliminate scripted multiple spam
3. restrict any new user to post for a week (cooling off period) so a spammer has to come back after a week and if the account spams, block it/ban it or black list it, make a note of the IP
4. Can other users have the provision to mark a message as spam, if more than 4/5 users mark it as spam, the message is not displayed and then
@ar2rsawseen can delete it or check why it was marked as spam.
Comments
Proposed Spam-Prevention Solution:
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/26312#Comment_26312
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Please stop.
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
@platypus, I am aware that this topic was raised a couple of time earlier but with the number of spam posts that took up nearly two screenfuls, it was appallingly irritating.
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Agreed.
[The link I posted above goes directly to my proposed solution. It wasn't to say "this topic has already been covered", it was to reiterate my suggestion (without having to retype it)!]
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Currently I managed to remove posted links from activities and will work on the plugin later
Although @Platypus your suggestion most probably will work the best, we still want the forum to be accessible for users without the wish to develop or use Gideros, but rather know more about, etc.
Regarding links:
Preventing spammers from posting links does not prevent them from filling the forum with spam and displacing all of the Gideros-related posts, like that spammer did today. If a potential Gideros customer visited the forum for the first time today, they would have chosen another SDK*.
(*and then ended up here in a week or two when they, like the rest of us, realise Gideros is the best!)
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Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Ranks can be used to restrict a member's abilities including adding links to posts and being able to edit a post after a certain time has passed. This helps combat human spammers."
it think this would be also helpful
source : https://vanillaforums.com/features/spam-prevention
now you need to reach certain amount of posts to post links in this forum
hopefully that will help
now going back to plugins
If something misbehaves, please notify me
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all I promised is take a look at it this week (even not develop but take a look and estimate)
but well will see how it goes
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You're amazing, mate. Thank you.
However, as I indicated above, blocking links would be a disincentive to intelligent, logical, reasonable, unspiteful human spammers (there probably are no such spammers), but it is not a prevention measure. They can still spam the forum (and the spam is relayed to the Twitter feed).
Repercussions of Forum Spam (on 15/10/2013):
https://twitter.com/GiderosForum
So, if possible, please add:
Daily Post Limit = (Number of Days as a Member + 1)
to your plug-in.
Thanks, champ.
Platypus
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
*EDIT!
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
https://twitter.com/GiderosForum
If I can edit this post after posting it, I will.
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Nope, sorry @Ar2rsawseen, it's worse now. Now we can't POST comments with links in them!
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Hope I can still attach an image... yep, but no link http://www.nolink.com
UPDATE: If nothing has been changed on the backend, then with the initial post, I cannot post a comment with a link, but once I post it, I can add a link by editing it. A Spam bot wouldn't do that, so that would take care of things, I hope....
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Create discussion, edit discussion, insert comment, edit comment. And they all are handled correctly now
Testing 1, 2, 3.
Here is a link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24530768
If this post can be edited, I will come back later and write "Bill & Ted" below this sentence.
Bill & Ted
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
Beautiful.
Thanks, mate.
By the way, in order to prevent the forum from being flooded with (link-free) spam, were you able to include the following limitation in your plug-in?
Daily Post Limit = (Number of Days as a Member + 1)
Meet Kate. Grey is her favourite colour. Maths is her favourite subject. Decency is her favourite type of behaviour.
She definitely does not like jewellery or modelling, but loves aeroplanes and other machines made of aluminium.
"MrBackDoorKing" creates and account.
(time passes)... 2 days later you he posts:
"Hi"
(time passes)... 4 more days.
"Hi all"
(time passes)... 5 more days
"I need help"
ok, ill stand in the corner and supress my breathing :-\"
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Do the new rules forbid new users to post a link?
I had covered a few examples in a comment I made in the past like : Is that still possible for those new users to post a link, or not?
@ArtLeeApps )
@Mells currently not in the first post
we will work out the normal limits first and then will try to come up how to handle with exceptions