[bbqchef33]

Originally Posted by amcd

replacement vars will change the links no matter how they post them. I think you are confused between replacement variables and censorship or something else.

yup, good call. I was thinking he meant the censorship keywords.

But i dont think it is the perfect solution as it stops new users from posting any links at all, which is not good. We have a hard enough time getting 'silent observers' to participate anyway.

99.9% of all domains are good and we have no problems if links are posted from those sites. We only want to block those websites which think our board is a good place to get free traffic from. Denying newbies from posting any and all links is not justified for 0.1% (or maybe even 0.01%) of domains.

And this does not stop anyone from spamming. It just adds to the initial time investment and makes it 10 minutes instead of 4. Earlier they could just register and spam, now they have to register, post x number of 'good' posts and then spam. Those first 'x' posts will only be 'good post' or smiley only posts and will only degrade the quality of the board.

Its a decent temporary solution or part of a tiered barrier. My spammer comes in, posts his spam and leaves to never return under the same id. He changes trhe last 4 characters of his ID on his next visit. Heres wwaht i did.

first, banned the class B subnet. Checked stuff out and he is the only one of 2000+ members coming from these subnets. I recognize i MAY be locking some others out, but the ban message states to contact me if they need assistance or feel wrongfully banned.

Second, installed this hack and set everything to 0 EXCEPT... set the minimum post count to posts links to 5. Its rare that a new members is posting links.. they usually hit our welcome forum and a few other plafes before they are comfortable enuf to start posting links.

Third, added his product names to the word censor so they get **** out..

Im hoping he just decides its to much hassle and goes away.