Preventing comment spam [blogspot.com]
That link is talking about blog comment spam, but wouldn't it apply here as well? phpBB could add it to all user-provided links.
Seems like it would be a good thing, no?
acknak wrote:I'm not sure I follow you.
This is no magic bullet, for sure, but it would pretty much remove the incentive for spammers to try and slip their links into posts. Obviously it has no effect on the bots; and it won't prevent a spammer from posting a link--except to waste his/her time.
At least according to the Wikipedia article, it seems to have had little or no effect in the time it's been around, so maybe that says enough.
DrewJensen wrote:I suppose we could do a little custom coding - User has < some number of posts = nofollow for links; > that number of posts = clear link.
DrewJensen wrote:Having a mix of nofollow and clear links simply tells the bot to not follow the particular link.
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