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This is a discussion on Signature Rules within the Site News forums, part of the Site Feedback and News category; To avoid having this site turn into a spamfest I've tweaked the settings a small bit so that signatures will ...
Signature Rules To avoid having this site turn into a spamfest I've tweaked the settings a small bit so that signatures will only become available once you're "promoted" to a "regular"
Sorry, but I've seen a very "nice" new trend in forum spammers, so I want to knock it on the head before it becomes an issue
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Sounds fair enough.Things can get out of control very quickly with sigs.
Thanks for your understandingOriginally Posted by paul
Sounds fair enough.
A lot of forums seem to attract people who just want to post a link to their site!
The problem with a lot of people, not only spammers, is that they think they are entitled to a link back to their site just for posting. It's your site and your rules go.
It's also probably a good idea not to post that it's X posts and then a sig, as that encourages lame posts just to get to that level.
The problem about not telling people is they'll keep asking, which is why I thought it best to post it ..
Trying to strike a balance and maintain my sanity
Good move! :-) Noticed a few spamy comments about....
If you see any please report them - I've just removed a load of junk .. though fortunately most of it was "moderated" automatically so it wasn't visible to users
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