Anyone else having issues with members using swear words for images?

MapleOne

Well-known member
Assign a number to image upload instead of name...

Some of my members are attaching screen shots with names like crap.png (trust me I'm being mild) and once the image uploads the name pops up as crap.png whenever the curser hovers over the image.

I know I can use filters to filter words but I would much rather that the board software assign in a random number so that crap.png becomes 18756.png once uploaded.

Not sure if that's possible with the addon or something but Xenforo uses .number to identify everything from members, to posts, to searches etc so I'm wondering why images don't get the same treatment.

I have to add that I don't allow hotlinking, any hotlinked image is converted to an attachment with an addon so we don't get dead images. It would be nice if a consecutive number was assigned as a name to uploads, it would solve a lot of issues with the members that use more colorful language.

crapload.png would simply become 12345.png
 
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admonish members who do this?
You don't notice it sometimes for weeks afterwards unless you hover over an image.

I've done it myself by accident, I will download an image as 1.jpg and next time is says override description so I type in anything temporarily as a name and then I don't bother changing the name when I upload it to the forum You can get some crazy colorful names on images.

I'm not sure it is actually done in a way to harm the site but it will hurt SEO if you have swear words and such as image names.
 
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