Link Protectors

[NeoSharez]

Wtf!!!!

Is it just on my board or are you all have problems with those members who are only posting links who are masked?

Like for instance :

http://securedlinks.******/

I have asked several members ( and yes , several times too ) for changing those links, but they dont even bother to change them, and just keep posting in the way they were doing.

Give me some comments/ instructions , on how you deal with that.

NeoSharez Reviewed by NeoSharez on 8th Jun 2009. Link Protectors Wtf!!!! Is it just on my board or are you all have problems with those members who are only posting links who are masked? Like for instance : http://securedlinks.******/ I have asked several members ( and yes , several times too ) for changing those links, but they dont even bother to change them, and just keep posting in the way they were doing. Rating: 5

[Lifetalk]

Strict.. that's what you need to be.

On my board.. I just have a general rule against link protectors. Whether these link protectors are legit, or phish attempts. I don't care to check that. If the member is trusted, I'll kindly ask them to edit their post, etc.

If the member is new... uses an autobot to post in my forum, and has never introduced himself.... well.. he/she gets a BAN. Anyone else, BAN!

No infractions, just BAN!

[Hawk]

Ban & Bin. Don't waste your time changing the links.

[r0ck]

agree with hawk....dont waste time

[sherwood]

Ban & Bin. Don't waste your time changing the links.

+1

no point wasting time with a phisher.

[el_jentel1]

Additionally you can always censor those links, so their posts would be useless, also make a global announcement about censored links that members should avoid such posts, and if they see someone trying to "bypass" it to not download and report.

With bypass I mean when the poster tries something like site name.com with a "remove space" note.

[NeoSharez]

Ok, Thank you all for the info, I will have to make some work out of it, to ban/bin those users at once.

[Hawk]

Hai

You're welcome. If you don't have many members of staff to handle reports, I suggest you hire more staff

Thanks.
- Hawk

[NeoSharez]

you got a point there, but its so damn hard to find some good staff, who knows what he/she is doing and understand what the responsibility of the job (moderator, super moderator)
I have plenty of staff but none is rely active in the last few weeks.

[jay]

you should force them to be active. on my forum, all staff visit atleast 1ce a day unless they're on holiday. else they lose thier position.

best thing to do is bin the link protectors, and censor the URLs.