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Started by Irisado, January 09, 2014, 11:17:16 AM

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Irisado

http://secondsphere.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1787

Looks very suspicious to me.  If it's as spammy as it appears to be, any chance of splatting it  >:D?
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Naser Al-Istikhara Cyrus

Either a spam account or someone who needs a geography lesson...since when is the Bahamas part of Greece :P
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Cammerz

If you look through a list of accounts on this forum you'll see a huge number of them with no posts and usernames which are random strings of characters. They don't do anything and you don't even notice them. There's no need to delete them unless they actively start spamming the forum with links (which I do recall happening very occasionally but it's always stamped out promptly).

Irisado

I know about the old accounts, I've raised this previously ;).

I'm not a fan of leaving spammer accounts in place, especially if there's lot of them, as if they all suddenly start posting en masse it becomes a problem.  Also, the fact that some have links, most likely dodgy, which can be clicked on, it's not a good idea to leave them in place.
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Sorck

I usually put in permanent bans on potentially dodgy accounts so they don't cause much of an issue.

I will change the permissions so that the signature can't be edited without any posts. (I'm sure I'd already done this but it never seems to work).

Irisado

Would it help to make a new membergroup for those with 0 and 1 posts to restrict their permissions to not being able to modify their profile at all?  That might solve the issue.
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Sorck

Quote from: Irisado on January 10, 2014, 09:03:58 PM
Would it help to make a new membergroup for those with 0 and 1 posts to restrict their permissions to not being able to modify their profile at all?  That might solve the issue.
There already are such groups.

Ah, I've just found where the problem has come from. When our settings table catastrophically imploded it removed the setting to allow post group based permissions so we lost the permission setting.

Irisado

That would definitely explain why the permissions weren't doing what they supposed to :D.  Hopefully, no more profile modification for non-posting spammers from now on :).  Thanks Sorck.
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