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#1 2016-12-07 22:27:26

ralph.ronnquist
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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS
Registered: 2016-11-30
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[SPLIT] URL post limitations

@golinux maybe it's a good idea to prohibit posts to hold direct links until the user has built up a sufficient "credentials", e.g. by having taken part in a handful of threads, or something?

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#2 2016-12-07 22:54:22

Chanku
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Registered: 2016-11-25
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Re: [SPLIT] URL post limitations

Just a quick context note. The above post was apart of another thread in which a spam thread was created that had a link. As such this response was/is a suggestion to limit the ability of users to post URLs until a certain time.

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#3 2016-12-07 23:07:25

Chanku
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Re: [SPLIT] URL post limitations

Also I'm going to go ahead and double post here really quick. As far as I can tell that can not be done on the forums without modifications to the code of the forums that we may have to do ourselves.

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#4 2016-12-07 23:41:34

Malinas
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Registered: 2016-12-07
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Re: [SPLIT] URL post limitations

Please don't restrict the new users in any way, people coming here for help will be frustrated if they can't for instance post a link to an online dump of a log file. Others would game the system just to access these privileges (see for instance the bad example of stack overflow).

I think that measures should be taken at the source first, i.e. making the registration process a tad more difficult for bots.

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#5 2016-12-07 23:45:35

golinux
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Re: [SPLIT] URL post limitations

Malinas . . . we're working on that.  We've only had about half a dozen spam posts since we went online because we're nuking spam registrations with a fury!  The registration process will be upgraded hopefully soon.

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