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Seeing what spammers are capable of doing just to spam their links, I advise to add "nofollow" and/or to deactivate signatures for normal mortals.

I agree. I have disabled viewing sigs because they are distracting. I never use one either.

Done, thanks.

This is apparently not applied to the website entry in the profile (which is also shown next to each post).

I've fixed the post thing, I'm not sure where the template for the profile view is, though...

phpBB: Preventing links in profile. ?

Profiles are not accessible to unregistered users (and thus search crawlers) so this does not matter very much.


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I see, you made some exceptions for http://noscript.net/, http://hackademix.net/ and http://maone.net/.

No no-follow for my signature link (taken from another forum user here)?

Fixed.

dhouwn wrote:No no-follow for my signature link (taken from another forum user here)?

Ahhh, so *that* explains why you were using another's signature!

Sorry to have questioned, but maybe letting us all know in advance next time? I was, uh,
A thousand pardons, Sire.

Side note: Just banned a new user who hadn't posted yet, because there was already a spam siglink in their profile. Meaning that their first post (and every other, if not caught immediately) would be spam. Have done that several times: user stays registered for about three or four minutes; their very first post gets the ban notice.

No harm in looking at new profiles, and after a while, ya sorta' get a feel for which new usernames are likely not to be legit.

Edit: Make that two within the past ten minutes. This one lasted six minutes.