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Re: Spambot Prevention Suggestions

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post

That all said, I do have a few thoughts that might help reduce spam (some of these have already been mentioned but are worth repeating) ...
  • Block hyper-linking from users with less than 5-10 posts.
Just to bring something up right quick, this would have to apply to all edits as well as original posts.

I saw a spammer put up a thread title that didn't make sense... with identical post content... but no links. 5 minutes later, the same post had MORE words that didn't make sense, plus the "normal" 30 or more links. (Another 5 minutes later, before this post you're reading hit the forums, the thread in question was gone, thanks to the mods.)


Just a heads up that we may have an invasion of editing spambots--make post, edit post with links.
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