So guess what? I disabled members list and I figured that is all I'll need to do. Nope, these SEO backlink scammers are still creating profiles. Took me a little while to figure out why, but they are doing it because of the calendar. Calendar has all the birthdays for all the members, so they usernames can be clicked on and they have their profiles with the URLs. I've again deleted 13,000 fake accounts using the above methods.
I strongly advise that people start removing these accounts, they are nothing but scummy people that charge legitimate website owners to "optimize" their search engine rankings by posting these messages.
Us, forum owners should fight to stop this junk from clogging up our own forums. Further this hurts our own search engine results as it makes the entire forum seem like a backlinking site to the entire world.
07-15-2014, 05:01 PM
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