Closed Links are shown in signatur although disabled
- Thread starter snoopy5
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yes
no, I tested it with a test account today. I can add a link into the signatur.
Why in a demo? That does not help. I have specific settings in the ACP and they are ignored.
Or do I miss here something?
They are not clickable, but you can see the link.
The whole point of not allowing URLs in a signature is to hide urls completely to avoid spammers.
So if in ACP the option sais "do not allow links", it should be really not allowed. Clickable or not does not matter.
The whole point of not allowing URLs in a signature is to hide urls completely to avoid spammers.
So if in ACP the option sais "do not allow links", it should be really not allowed. Clickable or not does not matter.
TPerry
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If they aren't clickable.. then they aren't a link... they are simply text.
The permission is apparently doing exactly what it is designed to do... preventing a clickable
Now, would it be nice if it prevented/stripped ANY text that used
Sounds like this is a moderation issue that you need to address... like removing the ability of that user from having a signature at all and editing his current one to remove ALL content from it.
Another suggestion.. disable signatures for ANY in the registered group, set up a promotion based upon time on site and number of posts and once a user meets that criteria, the promotion runs, they get promoted and the new group they get promoted into allows creation of signatures. That should pretty much eliminate the drive by spammers.
The permission is apparently doing exactly what it is designed to do... preventing a clickable
LINK from being shown and simply showing text like any other part of the signature. Now, would it be nice if it prevented/stripped ANY text that used
http:// or https:// formatting.. yep.. but it currently does exactly what it was designed to do...prevent LINKS... not URL's.Sounds like this is a moderation issue that you need to address... like removing the ability of that user from having a signature at all and editing his current one to remove ALL content from it.
Another suggestion.. disable signatures for ANY in the registered group, set up a promotion based upon time on site and number of posts and once a user meets that criteria, the promotion runs, they get promoted and the new group they get promoted into allows creation of signatures. That should pretty much eliminate the drive by spammers.
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I don't know about it being the whole point, but I do agree I would expect any link to not be allowed, clickable or just text.
But maybe it's technically not possible to do that.
The only way I can think of is to use regex in the word censor, and it would require this add-on (although I don't know if it is applied to signatures....plus, it would remove the text from posts as well, which is not good):
This is exactly what we do--new members have limited privileges until they've proven themselves. Then after a handful of posts, it opens up everything they need. We have another "bogey" for those who participate more, which opens up another forum area (classified ads), which helps prevent members from signing up only to post ads.
This is as-designed. The permissions are designed to prevent certain BBCodes from being used, but they will not prevent link-like text from being saved or displayed. Even if we attempted to do that, spammers could still post link-like text broken up by spaces or other characters. If this is especially problematic, I would consider restricting signatures to new users entirely as outlined above.