XF 1.5 Registration Spam

[Maa]

Hello,

We're receiving a huge amount of users who are registering and only entering a URL in their occupation field and their status, is there any possibility to restrict these fields and allow them to use the fields after a certain amount of post count has been met? Any help would be highly appreciated.

P.S. May I also suggest to the developers that the spam cleaner clear the entire profile rather than specific fields.

Thanks in advance,
Maa

 

[Mr Lucky]

You can use regex to stop URLs, this is what I use in Options for text fields - Value Match Requirements:

^(?!www$)(?!http$)(?!https$)[a-z0-9]+$

 

[Maa]

Thanks for your reply.

No, it's a default field (along with the location and home page fields). There's no way of editing these fields in the acp.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Ah, I thought you meant the registration form. You mean those fields in their profile.

You can disallow editing of profile in permissions for Registered usergroup

Then set a promotion to a usergroup after x many posts or likes or whatever, and give that group those permissions. It would cover the whole profile though, not just those two fields.

 

[AndyB]

We're receiving a huge amount of users who are registering

What is your forum about? The Q&A works extremely to prevent spammers from registering if your forum is specific to a subject.