Remove the "Must have 5 posts before posting links"

by **kanzure** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:23 am

Some of us really do have good links- what would you have registered members do, jump through hoops to make it all work? Hyperlinks are an important part of the WWW and forums, so I see it as rather extreme when we have to exclude links from discussions just to avoid spambots.

Otherwise, without links, members (such as me) will contribute +5 posts without useful links. Sounds basically the equivalent to spam to me, except this time with no links to follow. Rather detrimental, isn't it?

Please?

- Bryan

by **mith** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:22 pm

put a ! in the url

http://www.help!com

by **kanzure** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:08 pm

That method does not generate valid hyperlinks.

- Bryan

by **mith** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:17 pm

Nope, but you can tell OP to remove the offending character

*insidiously, I've made you reach more than 5 posts, congrats*

by **kclo4x** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:57 am

I say keep it, because it gives the users more incentive to answer and ask more questions and that will help the forum

by **dr. dugmore** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:06 am

kanzure wrote:Some of us really do have good links- what would you have registered members do, jump through hoops to make it all work? Hyperlinks are an important part of the WWW and forums, so I see it as rather extreme when we have to exclude links from discussions just to avoid spambots.

Otherwise, without links, members (such as me) will contribute +5 posts without useful links. Sounds basically the equivalent to spam to me, except this time with no links to follow. Rather detrimental, isn't it?

Please?

- Bryan

hmmmmmm,
you a bot?
its for the good of the forum surely you can see that!

by **alextemplet** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:48 pm

I agree with keeping the 5+ post requirement; getting that many posts isn't hard at all. You can probably post 10 or more posts per day in the "Last Person to Reply Wins!" thread, and nobody would complain about how useless those posts are. An introductory post in the "Introductions for Members" thread counts as one already, and if you absolutely must post a link, you can always just type the url and don't worry about making it an actual hyperlink. That's why God invented copy and paste. :wink:

by **MrMistery** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:24 pm

God invented copy and paste?

by **mith** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:29 pm

Thought it was Al Gore...

by **alextemplet** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:29 am

No, it was definitely God, not that imposter who claims to be god.

by **pian** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:21 am

kanzure wrote:Some of us really do have good links- what would you have registered members do, jump through hoops to make it all work? Hyperlinks are an important part of the WWW and forums, so I see it as rather extreme when we have to exclude links from discussions just to avoid spambots.

Otherwise, without links, members (such as me) will contribute +5 posts without useful links. Sounds basically the equivalent to spam to me, except this time with no links to follow. Rather detrimental, isn't it?

Please?

- Bryan

I agree with your suggestion. This is my 5th post anyway so I can post links.

Remove the "Must have 5 posts before posting links"

Remove the "Must have 5 posts before posting links"

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