http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: Links to Bozos and Blocked Users en Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:29:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/links-to-bozos-and-blocked-users#post-2780 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:14:37 +0000 ear1grey 2780@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Indeed, though I've only seen once instance so far where the spammers have bothered to leave a comment. My guess is that it's too difficult to write a robot that can leave intelligent spam, so they're hedging their bets and hoping not to be spotted lurking in the profile pages - if you can achieve that on several thousand instances you've suddenly got a whole lot of pagerank coming your way.</p> <p>Perhaps another useful tool would be to list the lurkers (similar to how bozos &#38; blocked users can be listed in the <code>Users</code> admin tab) where <code>a lurker</code> is someone who's registered but not commented. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/links-to-bozos-and-blocked-users#post-2779 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:39:06 +0000 thomasklaiber 2779@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>The next thing is, every Username links to the Website, too.</p> <p>But as i looked quickly throuh the functions I think this is something for a core change. The users website is passed from <code>get_profile_info_keys()</code> in an array to <code>bb_profile_data()</code>. This function generates the data-List and makes the Link clickable .. but there is no point where you can add a Plugin.</p> <p>The array from <code>get_profile_info_keys()</code> is passed trough a filter, maybe something like a <code>if (in_array(...))</code> in the filter ...?</p> <p>Just a thought... </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/links-to-bozos-and-blocked-users#post-2775 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:31:31 +0000 ear1grey 2775@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm seeing registrations for users whose "website" URL is very dubious (including adult stuff that would make most people blush). They're obviously only registering for the link because they don't leave any comments. </p> <p>If the admin goes along with the recommended action of marking the user as blocked (rather than deleting), then their link is still visible in the profile page. i.e. They win.</p> <p>So I'm imagining a core enhancement or a plugin that adds a filter so that any user who is marked as bozo/blocked has their details passed through a sanitizer which removes anything that looks like a URL before it's passed to the UI. </p>