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I am Baas
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Spammy links in signature

#1 Post by I am Baas »

Maybe consider to disable links in signature for new users with less than X number of posts.

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#2 Post by m^(2) »

I'm for.
Sometimes it doesn't help (people write several posts and a year later update the sig), but it's better what we see now.

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#3 Post by Andrew Lee »

No such feature in phpBB3, AFAIK.

phpBB3 experts, please advice.

It is possible to disable links/bbcode etc. in sigs tho.

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#4 Post by usdcs »

Do we even need signatures?

[Edit: :wink: ]

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#5 Post by guinness »

Do we even need signatures?
I think they can be useful for some users.

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#6 Post by m^(2) »

usdcs wrote:Do we even need signatures?
Oh yes, we certainly do. :D

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#7 Post by Firewrath »

usdcs wrote:Do we even need signatures?
*Points to Sig*
Yes. Yes I do. :P

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#8 Post by m^(2) »

BTW I just found a cool way that bots use to create human-like posts.
They take questions from answers.yahoo.com (likely others too). I guess they do some basic keyword analysis, so they don't ask about cooking on a Power Rangers forum, because the question I saw fit the forum well enough.

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