Why is there no sig filter?

Space Goat · 01-21-2011, 02:01 PM

Let me be a little more clear, your signature would have to match the popular pattern used by spambots (text within a url tag) for this to be triggered, not just an image size violation or text-only sig.

And anyway, if you are real, you can always register again. It also couldn't be triggered if you have more than 0 posts.

A few months ago, I pruned about 200 users, a selection that was determined by looking for signatures with this pattern and had 0 posts. I verified each one visually to make sure there were no real people in that population, and found none. The URLs were all obvious spambot links.

01-21-2011, 02:01 PM	#7
Space Goat Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,042	Let me be a little more clear, your signature would have to match the popular pattern used by spambots (text within a url tag) for this to be triggered, not just an image size violation or text-only sig. And anyway, if you are real, you can always register again. It also couldn't be triggered if you have more than 0 posts. A few months ago, I pruned about 200 users, a selection that was determined by looking for signatures with this pattern and had 0 posts. I verified each one visually to make sure there were no real people in that population, and found none. The URLs were all obvious spambot links.