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Spammers and this forum section

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Why does this forum section keep getting hit by spammers?
I think you should disable links in this forum section if you allow anyone to post, and if more than 2 links then don't allow the post at all.
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I have already suggested this.
Bring back...ducks!
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Crymson wrote:Why does this forum section keep getting hit by spammers?
Anonymous access.
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I don't think it's possible to selectively disable links in phpBB.
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Zarel wrote:I don't think it's possible to selectively disable links in phpBB.
But you can make that possible ;)
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Zarel wrote:I don't think it's possible to selectively disable links in phpBB.
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http://i50.tinypic.com/4ju7ms.jpg
see tick box bottom right
Hope this is helpfull
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Berg wrote:see tick box bottom right
Hope this is helpfull
That will only disable links in description of that forum.
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ooo well thought it be helpfull
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Well, I think that changes allowing to do that would be very simple, and anyone with some basic knowledge of PHP can do it.
However, it would require more work to make it configurable, and making it a local, not global setting would be really hard job.
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KukY wrote:making it a local, not global setting would be really hard job.
Not really, you can always check hardcoded forum ID or apply that to all that have write permission for guests.
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KukY wrote:That will only disable links in description of that forum.
Heck, that'll only disable turning:

example.com

into

example.com

in the forum description. Everything else like [url=http://example.com/]example.com[/url] will still work normally.
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Re: Spammers and this forum section

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There is an option!
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Is that global or per forum topic?
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KukY wrote:There is an option!
But it says "set to 0 for unlimited" - so how do you actually set it to 0?
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Berg wrote:Is that global or per forum topic?
Ofc it's global.
Nothing is good enough... :roll:
Still, I'm happy because I found it. So I'm happy without an reason :D
cybersphinx wrote:But it says "set to 0 for unlimited" - so how do you actually set it to 0?
:hmm:
You disable links at all!
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