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Posted Aug 5, 2010 11:19 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: Old threads by PaXTeam
Parent article: On comment spam

I was going to suggest something like that. Actually I was thinking more like banning new users posts with URLs, but close. :)

Obviously, virtually every spam message contains a URL. Most legitimate comments do not.

Preventing those with fewer than 5 legit comments from posting messages with URLs seems like a small price to pay.


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