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Originally Posted by JustinCAD
I think the problem isn't just preventing the links edited in, but the nonsense threads in general.
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The problem is
entirely the links; the only reason you see nonsense text at all is as a mechanism to get links on the page. If they cannot put links in threads, spammers have no incentive to spam, and won't do it. It is the entire reason they are doing this in the first place.
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If it's possible to prevent these threads altogether, we don't have to worry about just the hyperlinks.
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It's just really difficult to prevent "nonsense threads", but still allow a legitimate poster to create an account and post a thread right away. It is difficult to balance accessibility for legitimate new users with blocking spammers.
Also mentioned: CAPTCHA - one problem with this is that spammers are sometimes humans.