10-post minimum to post links?
 

I was browsing the High-Def Digest forums and happened to come upon a thread in which a poster with fewer than 10 posts was unable to post links. Apparently, it’s a security feature they use over there to help cut down on the one-post-wonders we lovingly refer to as “****ing spammers!!!!”

Their boards are built on vBulletin as well, so perhaps it’s a feature inherit in all vBulletin distributions and one that we could possibly look into in hopes of stopping at least SOME of the spam. Thoughts?

Re: 10-post minimum to post links?
 

AVS forum does the same thing. Except they have a 5 post minimum to post links.

Re: 10-post minimum to post links?
 

Thats an excellent idea.

I'm all for it. :thumbsup:

I vote for 5 posts though. That would cut down on spammers by a lot without causing problems for new users trying to post valid links.

Re: 10-post minimum to post links?
 

Me three.

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<walks into the room - 'Hey, voting, cool!!' - jumps on the bandwagon>

I'll give it an AYE.

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I agree,but make it ten posts.

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Agreed, at least 10 posts, or more.

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I vote for 10 posts as well.

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You bandwagon jumper you! :p

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The thing is, once you take away the spammers ability to post links.. They just start copying/pasting and posting large amounts of data to the forum instead..

It would take more bandwidth to send entire contents of a page than it would to send a link.

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Yeah, but having this restriction may prevent them from even trying. I say it's worth a shot to see if it's effective or not.

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I'll support this.:)