[Ali Roman]

Dear all,

To stop SPAM BOTS posting irrelevant links on our forum, we have implemented the following things:

1. To send a private message newly registered members must have at least 5 posts.
2. To post links in topics, one must have at least 5 posts.
3. To add a signature one must have at least 5 posts.

cheers
GT Team

EDIT: The link restriction is an issue for users needing help or who are registering just to post a tutorial result. So the restriction is lifted from help and tutorial forums. /Griatch

[Demented]

All that plus a sign-in captcha. I'm glad this is being taken care of. Thanks for de-spamming the place.

[Cyrilshark]

Great! I hope it works well

[inspectra]

Awesome, nice work.
Like Demen said, I'm glad all this is being taken care of. ^^

[GimpentoshFX]

Sounds good! Spam is quite annoying.

[Willis]

I noticed the Thing with Sigs, too bad I already had mine Up before this update

[Demented]

I just realized. We get a lot of first-time posters who want help on/want us to make an image. Now they have to make five random posts before they can give the link they came here to ask for help with.

This isn't a big deal, but it seems like it would be off-putting to people looking to quickly get assistance.

[TechGirl]

Spam is quite annoying - I hope this works out!

[Griatch]

Demented, on 03 April 2011 - 01:24 PM, said:

I just realized. We get a lot of first-time posters who want help on/want us to make an image. Now they have to make five random posts before they can give the link they came here to ask for help with.

This isn't a big deal, but it seems like it would be off-putting to people looking to quickly get assistance.

This is a good point, and I noticed this already in the return to a tutorial as well; there are many users who only register for one post. I have lifted the link-restriction for the forums that see most non-spam first-post content, notably the help forum, tutorial forums and the art/sig forums.
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Griatch

[Kropotkin]

Glad to hear this. One question: I realize captcha is a vital measure to prevent automated registrations, but once someone has registered is it really needed for logging in? I find sites that require captcha for logging in a real nuisance.

Thanks

[Demented]

There are new types of captchas that do things like showing a set of images and asks the user to click say, all the images of a cats. Maybe a captcha like that would be easier on the members and less annoying to do each login..

[480sparky]

Demented, on 03 April 2011 - 01:24 PM, said:

I just realized. We get a lot of first-time posters who want help on/want us to make an image. Now they have to make five random posts before they can give the link they came here to ask for help with.

This isn't a big deal, but it seems like it would be off-putting to people looking to quickly get assistance.

They can always post a link to the image, if not the image itself.

[Ali Roman]

I received a few emails from members where they were complaining about the login CATPCHA and couldn't login, so I have removed it for now, I will try to find out the problem and fix it.. for now the CAPTCHA for login has been removed..

cheers

[BarnArt]

Thanks Ali, being one of those that could not sign in, I'm happy you have addressed that situation. You had asked me for a screenshot, but you had already changed the sign-in by the time I got your note, so I could not get one for you. It has been a couple days and my memory isn't what it used to be, but there was a green box that I assumed was to type in the captcha data, but it covered the captcha message so that it was un-readable.

Thanks for getting back to me, and I hope the fix is an easy one.

Now to look around and check out the changes . . .

[Hatter]

Hi... this is my first post.
These all seem like sensible measures to me - I run my own forum and spammers are a big problem at the moment...
This looks like a good site - I hope to be able to contribute.

Gareth

Edit: the "no links before you've made 5 posts" restriction seems to stop you using emoticons!

[Cyrilshark]

Hatter, on 01 May 2011 - 10:19 AM, said:

Hi... this is my first post.
These all seem like sensible measures to me - I run my own forum and spammers are a big problem at the moment...
This looks like a good site - I hope to be able to contribute.

Gareth

Edit: the "no links before you've made 5 posts" restriction seems to stop you using emoticons!

Hm, that'd be because you're literally just linking to an image. I imagine there'd be some way to fix it...

[Hatter]

Cyrilshark, on 01 May 2011 - 05:02 PM, said:

Hm, that'd be because you're literally just linking to an image. I imagine there'd be some way to fix it...

I guess it might be possible to only allow links to gimptalk.com - it's hardly the end of the world though! <insert smiley here>

[ofnuts]

Ali Roman, on 24 March 2011 - 06:31 PM, said:

Dear all,

To stop SPAM BOTS posting irrelevant links on our forum, we have implemented the following things:

1. To send a private message newly registered members must have at least 5 posts.
2. To post links in topics, one must have at least 5 posts.
3. To add a signature one must have at least 5 posts.

cheers
GT Team

EDIT: The link restriction is an issue for users needing help or who are registering just to post a tutorial result. So the restriction is lifted from help and tutorial forums. /Griatch

Is this rule still in place? This forum seems to be receiving a lot of spam recently. This post contains a lot of links and the poster only has 3 posts on the clock (the other two posts are also full of links).

[14Stones]

Tbh, i dont see much spam. I woudnlt class one spam post the forum all spammed up.

[Kru]

You must be blind...

btw all of the spam is from paxilelavill. Wouldn't the easy thing be to ban and delete all of his posts? Just sayin...

This post has been edited by Kru: 01 February 2012 - 02:53 AM