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[amirm]

I am trying to deal with incredible amount of spam we are getting into member profiles, I have temporarily disabled editing profiles. If you are a Forum Donor you are not affected but otherwise, you may get an error. This is temporary until I find a better solution. Appreciate you putting up with this.

 

[BeeKay]

On this topic: Any chance to allow posting hyperlinks only by new members with at least say 50 posts? This would make ASR less attractive for spam.

 

[amirm]

We have that actually. So spammers are resorting to putting links elsewhere.

 

[yavormoskov]

I trying to deal with incredible amount of spam we are getting into member profiles, I have temporarily disabled editing profiles. If you are a Forum Donor you are not affected but otherwise, you may get an error. This is temporary until I find a better solution. Appreciate you putting up with this.

I will be completely honest with you. I have no idea how you manage all of this by yourself, Reviews, music awards, forums and now the issue with the spam. I don't know if you have helpers to run the whole operation with, but this is an enormous amount of work. Thank you, sir.

 

[amirm]

Thank you. It is huge amount of work around the clock. But I am grateful to have two wonderful helpers. One is a member who has made it his mission to find these spammers and report them to us. And the other is @RickS who tirelessly does the same thing I do.

 

[Ajax]

Cheers Amir, please don't hesitate to ask for help, I'm sure I can speak for the majority of members in saying that if there is anything we can do to assist, just ask.

 

[WOLFAGRAM]

If you are a Forum Donor you are not affected but otherwise, you may get an error.

Smart smart

 

[NorthernSoul73]

I rarely post here or at all but this is one of the first sites I check with my morning coffee to read reviews ... Appreciate all the hard work that goes into this site and I would just like to say thank you for providing such invaluable information.

 

[amirm]

I had to disable links in signatures for new registrations from now. As above, Forum Donors are fine.

 

[IsaacOscar]

I trying to deal with incredible amount of spam we are getting into member profiles, I have temporarily disabled editing profiles. If you are a Forum Donor you are not affected but otherwise, you may get an error. This is temporary until I find a better solution. Appreciate you putting up with this.

Am I looking in the wrong place to edit my profile? (I am a forum donor so I should be able to right?)

 

[Mocie]

Seems to be a wide issue amongst a slew of audio forums - the bots are out in full force

 

[xanalog]

I trying to deal with incredible amount of spam we are getting into member profiles,

I am trying to figure what that even means.

 

[amirm]

If you click on your Avatar, then About, you see a bunch of information members can put in there. Spammers use that to create links to sites which in turn raises their search ranking. They get paid to do this. We can disable the whole thing but then none of you can put such information in there.

 

[Imakeller]

Darn spammers ruin everything … I can see it being a problem.

Is it possible to just implement a rule of no hyperlinks in profiles? Or how about routing profile updates to a moderator for approval? Maybe those rules are easier said than done though. It’s just a shame to punish everyone for a few bad guys.

 

[IsaacOscar]

Or how about routing profile updates to a moderator for approval?

Let's not add more work for our single unpaid modetator...

It’s just a shame to punish everyone for a few bad guys.

Forum donors are exempt from the current restrictions (although I can't work out how to edit my profile...)

 

[MoreWatts]

I am modest forum donor, with abuncha links in my signature. @amirm, fyi, the links in my signature are currently disabled.

AVSForum limits the number of links that can be in the signature, to a small number, if I remember only 2 or 3. I don't know if that might help the situation.

Good luck with the attempts to deal with the bot onslaught.

 

[Imakeller]

Let's not add more work for our single unpaid modetator...


Forum donors are exempt from the current restrictions (although I can't work out how to edit my profile...)

Just putting forth some ideas to potentially deal with the problem. I honestly have no knowledge about website administration or how much time/work it would entail, etc.

Maybe only allow forum donors to have hyperlinks?

To edit your profile, click on your avatar and go to account details.

 

[IsaacOscar]

Maybe only allow forum donors to have hyperlinks?

Seems reasonable (I thought this was already the case).

To edit your profile, click on your avatar and go to account details.

It says "Your full account details are not currently editable." and I don't see any options to change my "About" info.

 

[BigDaveRiley]

I trying to deal with incredible amount of spam we are getting into member profiles, I have temporarily disabled editing profiles. If you are a Forum Donor you are not affected but otherwise, you may get an error. This is temporary until I find a better solution. Appreciate you putting up with this.