[noactive] [nofollow]?

[kai920]

Lately I've noticed some of these next to URLs posted in the SMF forum. Are these for SPAM-prevention purposes? (the URLs get changed to hxxp://.....)

Is it a mod or new feature built into SMF 2.x?

[青山 素子]

It's a modification one of our developers created for this site. If it works well, we might consider releasing it for the general public.

[kai920]

Cool. Look forward to hearing more about how it works.

[thischarmingmanc]

I have just noted the nofollow thing on singatures in posts(when i hit 10), is this for all footers or just semi newbies ?

[Antechinus]

Newbies only.

[thischarmingmanc]

please define a newbie ?

[Antechinus]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=newbie

1.    newbie
   
A person new to a game, concept, or forum. Not to be confused with n00b, a stupid person. Newbies are just new.

[thischarmingmanc]

Maybe I was looking for a more techincally precise and contextaulised answer .

And I didnt realsie that new and newbie were anything mroe than a more polite verson of the same word.

[青山 素子]

What kind of technical explanation do you wish to have?

By the way, you should use BBCode in your signature, not raw HTML.

[thischarmingmanc]

I will change it, cheers

[thischarmingmanc]

Its Ok signature chnaged

I read some commenst and I cleared up what i was asking.

Also is BB code supposed to simpler than HTML ??

I have never quite got why it exists

What kind of technical explanation do you wish to have?

By the way, you should use BBCode in your signature, not raw HTML.

[Sajeesh Nair]

A good explanation from Wikipedia:

BBCode was devised to provide a safer, easier and more limited way of allowing users to format their messages. Previously, many message boards allowed the users to include HTML formatting, a side effect of which was that malformed HTML could disrupt the page's layout, or HTML could be used to run JavaScript leading to XSS attacks. Some implementations of BBCode have suffered problems related to the way they translate the BBCode into HTML, which could negate the security that was intended to be given by BBCode. An alternative is a properly written HTML filter (many of which are freely available).

Although the basic tags of BBCode are similar in most internet forum software, there is currently no standards document for BBCode and there are consequently many incompatible variants. Some variants are case-sensitive while others are not. Some variants have tags which highlight the formatting of HTML, ASP, PHP, SQL and other markup languages and programming languages.

[thischarmingmanc]

cheers if i could giove rep on thsi forum you would get some for that.

A good explanation from Wikipedia:

BBCode was devised to provide a safer, easier and more limited way of allowing users to format their messages. Previously, many message boards allowed the users to include HTML formatting, a side effect of which was that malformed HTML could disrupt the page's layout, or HTML could be used to run JavaScript leading to XSS attacks. Some implementations of BBCode have suffered problems related to the way they translate the BBCode into HTML, which could negate the security that was intended to be given by BBCode. An alternative is a properly written HTML filter (many of which are freely available).

Although the basic tags of BBCode are similar in most internet forum software, there is currently no standards document for BBCode and there are consequently many incompatible variants. Some variants are case-sensitive while others are not. Some variants have tags which highlight the formatting of HTML, ASP, PHP, SQL and other markup languages and programming languages.

[Yigal]

Have you got your final question answered?

[karlbenson]

I'm not sure what the levels were set at.  They were made adjustable by postcount.

Hopefully it should dissuade spammers of all types (pagerank spammers, human spammers etc) from attempting to post crap on smf.org.

Our smf.org team were pretty fast in removing it anyways, its just better for a bit more automated ways.
Although if you do spot anyone trying to get around the blocks (which should be quite obvious), then please inform us and we'll tweak the mod.

[Özgür]

Just suggestion: I think banned members links (in banned member message) should be nofollow or noactive.

[Arantor]

Doing that isn't particularly easy last I checked, at least not efficiently, without resetting their post count to 0.

[青山 素子]

That might be server-intensive or require restructuring the ban system as SMF doesn't check if a member is banned when displaying their post.

[Arantor]

That might be server-intensive or require restructuring the ban system as SMF doesn't check if a member is banned when displaying their post.

Well, I started doing some work on it for the purposes of one mod I'm working on. In theory you could do it by checking the is_approved value against them in {db_prefix}members, seeing if it's > 10 or not, but it's not efficient since you would be applying that check in the bbcode parser. Doable - but expensive.

[Thantos]

That might be server-intensive or require restructuring the ban system as SMF doesn't check if a member is banned when displaying their post.

Not 100% sure that is true.  I seem to recall a [is_banned] in the context for the poster.  I'll have to get back to ya on it though.