Link and Sig restrictions for new users?

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  1. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    How many administrators here do this on their community? If you have these restrictions in place - what's implemented on your community? Do users have to make more than 5 posts to posts links and have a signature?

    What do you guys think? What are the pros and cons to this? If your community has restrictions - what plugin do you use to help you with this?[and what software]
     
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    Users need 5 posts before they can have a sig, default setting in IPB. Started using it to combat spam sig links.
     
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    When did you start using that setting? Has it fought a lot of spammers? I know I'm having a tough time fighting sig spammers on my vBulletin 4.
     
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    Had a couple of weeks people registering not posting but adding links in their sig. It's helped with the sig link spam but they still don't post anything.
     
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    Ya, I finally got ahold of the mods that help me combat those spammers. Thanks to @Brandon and @Big Dan http://admin-talk.com/threads/6197/
     

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